Post #169 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
July 2011 Memoir Contest – Final Honorable Mention Story
Women’s Memoirs is pleased to publish the third and final Honorable Mention winner in our July Memoir Writing Contest, Independence Category. Jennifer Pownall is a stirring storyteller who takes us on a journey to a terrible time in her life, a time she escaped. Congratulations Jennifer on winning an Honorable Mention in our memoir contest.
Memoir Contest Honorable Mention
MARCH 29, 2008, INDEPENDENCE DAY
By Jennifer Pownall
Freedom
My birthday is February 27, 1973—but I feel like I was not really born until March 29, 2008. You see, March 29, 2008 was my Independence Day. It was a day that I woke up, got out of bed and said, “Enough.” I needed to escape and I had to do it then and there and do it fast.
My entire life, for as far back as I can remember, was nothing but sadness, trauma, [click to continue…]
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