Ruth Smith Meyer
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As a child, Benny Ribble bears the brunt of his parents' anger. Never good enough, he nonetheless tries to please them and hear some words of praise. When he finds himself on the receiving end of a girl's attention and affection, he thinks he's finally escaped the abuse he's suffered his whole life. Sadly, his marriage soon turns into another battlefield. Every time his wife, Alma, bursts his balloon of achievement with her put-downs, he sees himself...
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With vivid memories of her very early life, Ruth Smith Meyer has spent seven decades processing what has made her feel different or unusual. Whether it was being born into a conservative Mennonite family, the differences in her physical composition, or the events of her life, they all contributed to the struggle and growth she experienced as she faced them one by one.
Each of us is a unique being with our own special personality and genetic make-up....
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In the timewhen women often died in childbirth and men remarried to have someone to care for the house and children, new mothers sometimes cut off relationship with the maternal grandparents. Ellie is a strong young woman faced with circumstances that are not her choice. When Ellie's older sister Regina dies at the birth of her third child, her parents request that Ellie break off her engagement to the man she loves and marry their son-in-law, John,...
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Barely a grown woman, Rina's marriage to her imaginative and sometimes impractical dreamer husband, continually growing list of children, the impending Great Depression, and the chaos of life in general take over, moulding her into a strong woman not unlike her own parents, proving the apple does not fall far from the tree. Faced with constant moves and less than desirable circumstances, Rina relies on the Lord and her love of David and their children...