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hillarychristians25
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I am 50 years old and proud of it. I've been married to the same man for 23 thereof with three kids on top of that, a daughter 23 and two sons 20 and 14 years old. I'm fairly new to writing poetry, only started a little less than two years ago after my mom died as some coping mechanism. Once I got a taste, I couldn't stop. So, here we are... I started writing when I was about eleven years old, having to keep two younger siblings occupied while my dad was at work and my mom constantly in and out of hospital with our youngest sister who was born sickly. At first I tried reading to them and we only had a children's bible that was so hard to read, much less to understand. It was written in our mother tongue - Afrikaans, but such difficult words were used for what was supposedly a kiddies bible in those days. Then I started to tell those stories in my own words, using the amazing pictures as a show and tell. The illustrations was the only thing going for that bible back then. Later on it was just fun to make up stories off the top of my head and they ate it all up. Then all that creative energy went and gather dust on the shelf and time just flew by. It immerged again some ten years ago and I wrote short stories in my home language and then I got busy again. Until now