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 A lifetime of courage Dec 02, 2009
By Steven C. Mackinnon
Ray Lawrence has attacked the demons which have hounded him throughout his life and in the writing of this Memoir has proved himself to be a person of extraordinary courage. He has attempted, through his writing, to exorcise them and in the process made decision after decision, page after page on what to share and what to harbor in secret. It seems plain that that no one reveals such terrible personal secrets about their lives without giving it serious thought and without considering the additional criticisms he must have known were coming.
He states at the outset and again in closing that a large part of the reason he wrote this painful story was so that he could at one time and forever answer the questions his children had asked him about his life and to provide them with an explanation of not only who he is but how he became who he is. It is a legacy we should all be so lucky as to receive from our (nearly always not so forthright) parents and so courageous as to bequeath to our own children.
He has given us a real sense of the "alone" person who is trapped in their own tortuous world and whose every early attempt to escape is doomed by their lack of "real world" skills. Mr Lawrence does not ask for redemption or elevate his errors to the levels of sins, but instead uses his considerable word skills to paint a portrait of a good person trapped by circumstance and training in a frightening world he constantly wishes to escape.
I hope this book has done it for him. It should make us all take a closer look at what we are and whether we are as much of our own creation as we have a right to be or are unhappy actors in a farce created by others.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
An excellent read Dec 02, 2009
By Leslie Gronbech
"Leslie"
This is an awesome book about life, love, and forgiveness. You need to read it from Cover to Cover to understand what Ray has done to survive and overcome the abuse he suffered. How he was introduced to his loving wife of almost fifty year, and best friend Maryann.
I loved this book could not put it down, I had to know what would happen next. Some of it had me laughing and other parts I was tearing up. It was an Excellent book to read.
Thank you so much Raymond for answering a lot of questions for us. Dec 19, 2010
By Terri Lawrence
For many years my children and I have wondered what had effected their fathers life in order for him to end up so screwed up and abusive. You have answered a lot of those questions for us my being vulnerable enough to open up about the most painfull part of your life and putting it on paper for us to read. Since my ex-husband, your younger brother, William passed away there have been tapes and letters surface from your Mother that I was shocked to read. I never realized she was such a horrible human being, let alone Mother. I will admit William tried to relate some of this to us. Unlike you, as much as he tried, he was not able to overcome the effects of his emotional abuse and in turn used that on us. Thank you for opening up and reliving all the pain to write this book so that some of us could experience a healing and realize that we did nothing bad to make him react the way he did towards us. It was the abusive Mother, that in stead of loving her children with unconditional love, chose to take out on her aggression on her children and her pride ate her up.She has hurt generations of her own families because of her selfishness. But, those of us who have chosen to get past all this are survivors of the worst kind of abuse. Sometimes the kind you can see and sometimes the kind you can't. I pray many other families can be helped and healed from the pain you went through and your choice to get it out in the open.
Bravo to you Raymond! Thank you, from Gina, Daniel and Terri Lawrence.
 i dont hate you mama Dec 01, 2009
By Anastasia Felix
I am the daughter of Carolyn and John,
Your book is filled with hateful refrences of race, and it hurts the children of Carolyn and John.
Dude your never sent us any thing on holidays or birthdays.. were your family my parents devorced.. you were never there for us
You mention my parents in such a hateful way.. and you know Carolyn for more than 40 years.
The things you said they did your fantisy. not reality.
You drove them to get married... oh omited from you book
Thank you for bashing my family and my grand parents.
dont call my mother.. you hurt her.
Maryann.. you should call mom and hug her
and oh by the way my mom is the one with the handicap.. ray your facts are distorted.. bad um arm..
thank you again for bringing up very painful memorys with out our permission.. my parents devorce.. umm ya your um the great
and wonderful one.. gratz and happy holidays. Wow . .. what do you think your kids would do.. if you told them their mom tried
to force you to marry them.. good job again .. with out permission I must stress again.. gosh.. you did well walking on the
backsides of.. well us innocent ones..
happy holidays uncle ray
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