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Let's say you're a people person. You like helping people, taking
them soup when they're sick, inviting their college children for
dinner, solving their computer problems, supporting them in their
business efforts. Then one day you realize you're always on the
answering end of the phone, and you have no life of your own. So
you say to yourself, "I need to get away, and tell nobody where I
am." This is what happened to A1QTEE, owner/operator of the social
networking site, Blaq-kawfee.com except she left a message, "Tell
them I died." Tell Them I Died is a romantic adventure that centers
on the loves and lives of Angela and "Bodine" Beaudoin and their
friends on the social networking site, Blaq-Kawfee.com. Angela and
Bodine are retired and live in Raleigh, North Carolina. Every day
they interact with friends all over the world on Blaq-Kawfee.com
until Angela receives a phone call from Carlton telling her that
his mother, A1QTEE, the owner/operator of Blaq-Kawfee died a month
ago. Instantly, Angela smells foul play and finds herself working
overtime, much to the chagrin of Bodine, to figure out what
happened to her dear friend.
Imagine you gave a baby up for adoption forty years ago, and after
years of trying to find her, she finds you. Now come the hard
questions. She's healthy, beautiful, and successful, but she wants
to know why you gave her away and why you didn't marry her father.
And there is also the unspoken question of "What kind of black
woman gives her baby away?" How do you explain to her that giving
her away was the best gift you could offer? This is Sarah
Weathersby's first published work, a
coming-of-age-in-the-sixties-single-black-pregnant and on the way
to Germany, memoir.
Family stories are easily lost, especially in these times when
children leave home and move far and wide from the place where it
all began. Family reunions are times when the old stories may be
repeated, but the young ones often don't listen. Some stories are
never retold because of embarrassment or feelings of shame, and the
failure to recognize that regardless of how dour our circumstances
may have been, that was where we came from. Even our mixed heritage
should be a source of our strength. My siblings and I often heard
the stories of our grandmother, Mattie. My sister LaVerne, as the
oldest had the foresight to write down the story as told by our
Mother before she died in 1958.
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