{"id":16096,"date":"2017-12-17T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:54:21","slug":"message-from-another-trish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=16096","title":{"rendered":"Message From Another Trish"},"content":{"rendered":"
The nonfiction section of Patchwork Love\u00a0<\/em>begins (p 327) with A Message from Trish, the 10-year-old girl you first glimpse on the cover, as she explains her role in this story, and the empowering reality of choice.<\/h5>\n

Hi Reader, my<\/strong> name is Trish, the girl you\u2019ve been reading about. I\u2019m just a work of fiction, you know that. Not real, but yet I am. I\u2019m bits and pieces of people that the author knew, or read about, or saw their story on the evening news. I\u2019m a statistic, based on truth, fluffed up a bit with thoughts, pink shirts and pony tails, because the author hopes you will connect with the human side of my story, and Jonathan\u2019s story. And Merit\u2019s, and Lovely\u2019s, and Carrie Ann\u2019s. Every character in this book comes packaged with a set of experiences unique only to them, making choices from the frame they know. The same is true for each of you. Every next moment is a choice you make.<\/em><\/p>\n

Patchwork Love tackles many issues overall \u2013 kidnapping, rape, adoption, illegal immigration, poverty, wealth \u2013 good grief, you\u2019re thinking, too much! But the story is really about the aftermath. As Lovely points out \u2013 it\u2019s not what happens, it\u2019s what you do. How do we deal with abandonment, and loss, with abuse and sadness? Do we flail out with destructive behaviors, or mull over our misfortune in silence, letting it eat away from the inside out? Do we get our jollies in the victim role, feeding on a steady diet of pity pie? Or do we \u201cget off the pot\u201d and take positive steps to move forward, as Clayton finally did? Every moment is a choice.<\/em><\/p>\n

How are readers responding to Trish\u2019s message? Author Linda Lou Burton shares a letter she received from a reader December 14, 2017.<\/h5>\n

Thank you for writing Patchwork Love. I, too, have been one of your statistics, and over time made necessary adjustments to live with results of evil intent others had in regard to me and my wellbeing. I have always believed we become the person of our life experiences and how we respond to them. We don\u2019t make \u201cmistakes,\u201d we make choices, and for every choice there are consequences. Your book brought this out loud and clear.<\/em><\/p>\n

Good does overcome evil. This is something we would do well to remember each and every day we live.<\/em><\/p>\n

In appreciation for your book.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The nonfiction section of Patchwork Love\u00a0begins (p 327) with A Message from Trish, the 10-year-old girl you first glimpse on the cover, as she explains her role in this story, and the empowering reality of choice. Hi Reader, my name is Trish, the girl you\u2019ve been reading about. I\u2019m just a work of fiction, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4588],"tags":[3402,3403,3404,3405,3369,3406,3407,3365,3408,3343,3409,3410,3373,3375,3411,3412,3333,3413,3414,3415,3344,3416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26351,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions\/26351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}