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A Poem for Corrie

Corrie's Mom

Writing should always have a purpose.

When we’re thirteen, it may only be to get those feelings out on paper with our limited knowledge of the world. Then, in some cases, thirteen-year-olds know more than my preteen self.

I am so thankful to those who’ve reached out in person, on Facebook, and from the Twitter writing community about the death of my five-year-old daughter, Corrie. The timespan of her life has become a focal point for my writing in a memoir I’m calling Corrie’s Season. 

A fellow writer on Twitter was inspired, and wrote a beautiful poem about Corrie. Cadence Larissa Beth Beresford @AliceLBronte on Twitter shared these beautiful words. This is the author Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/SimonWarwickBeresford/

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@R_T_Dickinson_ I was inspired, hope you don’t mind.
Will delete if you ask me to. pic.twitter.com/2ukIoVJ1uJ

— Cadence Larissa Beth Beresford (@AliceLBronte) June 8, 2020

 

 

 

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They say teacher turn over is high right now, and many teachers will leave the profession in five years or less. I will enter my seventh year as a full-time teacher, and my 12th year in education after I'd started as a sub and teacher assistant. I was the student in the 1990s you did not want in your classroom because I was diagnosed with ADHD and did not know how to socialize with other kids. I was due to be tested for autism, but this was considered an ostracizing experience for a child then, especially a girl. I am a third generation teacher and author of seventeen creative works.

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