Tag: roger dean kaiser
member name: Roger Kiser
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December 03, 2007 09:37 AM EST --
As a young man, I was so busy chasing life that I did not take the time to realize that I was becoming old and grey. It was then that I turned around and began to realize that "the life" . . .
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October 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
Several months ago I turned on my computer and found that my mail system was flooded with e-mails from Africa. Each e-mail telling me that someone in the Nigerian banking business wanted to share millions . . .
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December 27, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
ANOTHER ORPHAN'S LETTER
Hi Roger,
I have been crying all afternoon! I just purchased your book today at a book fair here in Los Angeles (near the LAX airport area) while taking my 2 young girls . . .
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October 09, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
I just wanted to take a moment and thank those of you who purchased one of my books.
I just received a letter from someone on gather who thanked me for the book and CD. I included a free CD of my stories . . .
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November 20, 2007 02:03 PM EST --
I read it straight through without stopping., May 31,
By moonlightmorgan (Ontario, Canada)
I must have said "Oh my Goodness" or it's equivalent at least 10 times throughout this book. . . .
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October 17, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
Needing to get something laminated I headed down to Staples Office Supply. Getting out of my truck I saw a Coca Cola stand set up in front of the store. Written on the side was a hand printed poster which . . .
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January 12, 2008 02:54 PM EST --
"GOD, you are right. He is a freak with that ear all stuck against his head like that," said one of the girls, as I walked past them at Landon Junior-Senior High School in Jacksonville.
Being . . .
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June 09, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
As this is the anniversary of my orphan brother Davids death; I thought I would repost this story
"SISSY-BOYS"
As we kids left the dining room at the orphanage, my friend David . . .
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December 22, 2007 09:24 PM EST --
I am not sure if this is a subject that anyone would care to read about. I do not like writing about crude subjects and even worse I hate using crude words. However, there is something deep down inside . . .
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August 24, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
It had been many a year since I stood in front of Preston's Drug store. It is located where Beach and Atlantic Boulevard come together on the south side of Jacksonville, Florida.
This was the store . . .
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April 12, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
If I had to choose just one person who has affected my life more than any other individual, it would have to be Mayme Winters or "Mother Winters," as we called her at the orphanage.
I am not . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . .
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August 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Well, many of my gather friends suggested that I take ten days to think things over before deciding to close our home child advocate's office. The individual who flagged my article, advising people . . .
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September 16, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
My book "Runaway-Life on the Streets-The lessons learned" has been placed on Amazon.com.
The first link for the book is from my web site and is for autographed copies only. On that page you . . .
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September 11, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
Twenty of us boys watched with eyes wide open as the girls filed into the orphanage dining room. All eyes were upon Vel Addison. She was marching past us wearing a pair of white, skin-tight shorts.
"Oh . . .
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September 11, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
There were more than a million tears that were waiting to explode from behind that fake smile, which I had worn on my face for at least the last 45 years. A very large hidden bucket of sorrow that I never . . .
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September 11, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
I cannot explain to you in words just how excited I was when I heard that a real mommy and a daddy were coming to take me, and Beulah Gillman away from that terrible orphanage. At last, I would finally . . .
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September 15, 2007 03:01 PM EDT --
Sometimes it is very difficult for me to write something that will allow the readers of my stories to comprehend a certain point that I am trying to make. I hope this short story makes a very important . . .
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November 09, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
After I was released from the Florida School for Boys at Marianna (reform school), I was locked up in the juvenile hall for months. I refused to ever return to the Children's Home Society. I was not . . .
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January 16, 2008 06:46 PM EST --
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I have always considered myself just a regular old fellow.
I live in a twenty-two year old doublewide mobile home, in Brunswick, Georgia; drive a truck . . .
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