A Voice Helps Reunite a Family

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Ten years ago, while trying to get to sleep one night, Marilyn Fowler heard a voice. It was the voice of her late mother, Charlotte. The voice told Marilyn to write the story of their family, which was first torn apart by the Great Depression and then went through periods of poverty and even homelessness.

 

“All the memories kept coming back to me,” Marilyn told the paper. “I rolled out of bed and I said, ‘Mom, I’ll write your story, now leave me alone.’”

 

Marilyn began writing about her family’s troubled history and her own tumultuous life, which involved her and her mother moving throughout the country in a constant search for stability. Like the time they found themselves destitute and without a place to live, dependent on an aunt in Deland, Florida to take them in.

 

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