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I am an "accidental blogger". When I launched my writing career in March of 2014, one of the things that I decided to include was my journaling, which I have always found to be a comforting and therapeutic endeavor.  It was a big risk to open myself up in such a public forum, but it has taught me that, for the most part, we share far more experiences than we think. It's comforting to know I'm not alone!  (*the "Button Text" is the link to my first novel)
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Beauty & The Beast: Prelude to an Ending

3/27/2014

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Forward: I am writing this to end a rocky, wonderful, painful, healing story. Internet relationships are a modern day phenomenon. We now have access to more people in more places and ways than at any other time in our history (that we know of...I've been watching too much "Ancient Aliens"). It is easier to meet others, share more details about who we are with strangers under an "invisible cloak" of annonymity. Funny just how personal keeping our distances from one another can create such intimate opportunities. I have made many friends over the years via the internet and social media. Being a former military wife, my husband was gone a lot and I got my social needs filled by going online instead of getting a sitter and leaving our girls at home. I learned lessons about over-sharing and people's ability at quick, often harsh judgements. I also learned how to open my heart and mind to new experiences. I found a freedom that I had never dreamed of having before and the cost that freedom exacts. Every "thing" comes at a price and rarely does the true cost equate to dollars, Euros, Yen or any other form of coinage. I could write volumns, alone, on my diverse, wide-open online experiences and perhaps I will. But  not this time. This is my dying embers tribute to a love story. Fairy Tales of old, in their original versions, had harsh, often frightening endings before the world around us became PC and sterilized them. This is not sterilized. These are letters from Beauty to the Beast and they contain her truth, from her eyes, about her part of this modern-day, fractured Fairy Tale.

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Mark
3/27/2014 01:57:03 pm

Beautifully written!!!

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Hawk
3/28/2014 07:31:07 am

Don't let this be the last of your work. You've unleashed that beast and now started something new and amazing with this writing... keep it flowing. As you have mentioned, you've made many valuable friends, use some of those experiences to soften your heartache. Thank you for sharing your soul and your talent.

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    I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was only nineteen, I moved away and became a military wife. My only aspiration at that tender time in my life was to create an adult life that "fixed" all of the "injustices" of my childhood. Secretly, however, I wanted to reach for the sky! I wanted to be a writer and find ways to "save the world" (my mother used to say, "You have Save the World Syndrome".). Mostly, I wanted to matter.

    Since then, I have learned to reach well beyond what I ever dared to think was possible. I've learned not to allow fear to stop me from whatever future I want to create!

    What keeps me grounded? My Tribe! What provides the wind beneath my wings? A well of reserves filled with unstoppable passion!

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  • Amy M. Schaefer, Writer
  • Blog: From the Front Porch
  • Novels
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    • Children's Books
  • About the Author
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  • Photo & Art Gallery