WE WERE NOT ORPHANS

by Geraldine Messina Smith

192 pages

How a large immigrant family survived life in an orphanage.

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About the Book
WE WERE NOT ORPHANS tells the story of a family torn apart by mental illness. With the mother in the state hospital Jerry, the oldest of eight, seeks to hold her family together often at odds with her immigrant father. This is a tale of family, faith, and forgiveness which shows how music and spirituality helped to sustain the author and her family through the highs and lows of their growing up years in and beyond the orphanage. While their mother deteriorated following a lobotomy, their father faced his own moral dilemmas. He unwittingly contributed to the humiliating struggle of his eight children trying to be a family. Though a heartrending story of a family, it is also a triumphant journey of sisters and brothers parenting each other.
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About the Author
	She earned two Masters degrees, worked as a Christian Educator, Administrator and Consultant for the YWCA in the USA, UK, and with the Red Cross in the USA and the UK. Her work as a Family Therapist for over twenty five years was informed by her early life in an orphanage with her sisters and brothers. A tale of heartbreak and triumph.

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