I am pretty excited! I am going to attend the Gingerich family reunion on July 7th and 8th. This is my Dad's side of the family whom I have not seen in like 12 or 13 years. I have some cousins that I used to be very close to. The Gingerich's live in, Ohio, Texas, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, California, and I know there are more states just can't think of them right now. It will feel a little bit like going back to my roots. Most of my memories of my Dad's side of the family is from when I was a little girl.
I have taken this summer off from school, (this is my first week off). I am going to travel back to Wayne County where I grew up, memories seem to really flood back when I go up there. I have been up there far and few between, I don't like the dark feelings that flood me when I go back to my Amish past.
I have happy family memories, and I have the best parents anyone could ask for, They have big hearts, honest and full of love. (They do however still have some Amish thinking lol). The dark feelings that I have are from Amish culture and dictatorship (if I may be so blunt). It is not easy to go back in memory, it is depressing really. But, I am going to have to go back so that I can tell my story and write my book to help others that are coming out and going to experience the very same feelings, fears and giving up family, friends and having the world as they know just simply disappear. I felt like I didn't belong anywhere. The "English" world was so foreign and the Amish world had damned me to hell. I felt lost.

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Hi! I am back after a great Memorial Day weekend and a hard but productive week at work. I think I have writer's block this week. Work has been rather stressful and so have school assignments. Have to help prepare food for my fiance's daughter's graduation party and bake and decorate a birthday cake for my son who just turned 19. Softball practice and game tomorrow. Hair appointment and then drive to Berlin to buy pumkin seeds for our 4 acre field we are planting. And numerous other errands you would not be interested in. So that as why I can't go back to memory lane. I have to many "other things" floating around in this teeny brain. I do hope to write early next week so check back!!!:))))

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