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    The Journey Home
    The Journey Home
    The Journey Home
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    The Journey Home

    By Ryllandra Rose

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    This is a story of family jealousies, secrets and abuse, passed down the generations, and how they affect outcomes for everyone involved. Children are not always innocent and those who are not can impact the lives of those who are, in untold and unending ways.
    What happens when life isn't what you thought it was? More importantly, what do you do when your own memories might not be as accurate as you'd been told they were? Patricia's life has been difficult to say the least, with others knowing more about her than she knew herself. Patricia finds her own answers, her own sense of self when she stops running from the fears and hatreds others have instilled in her.
    This is a story of overcoming the fear of what others might think, of how endings make new beginnings, and what truth really looks like.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRyllandra Rose
    Release dateMay 11, 2015
    ISBN9781311599254
    The Journey Home
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    Ryllandra Rose

    Creative pursuits of many varieties clamour for my time and attention, only some make it to into the public view. Having no interest in building a social media platform, Ryllandra's Realm and Smashwords are my outlets into the world. Collaborative writing projects also involve the creation of the high fantasy roleplaying game-world Phaemorea. See more at Phaemorea.com

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      The Journey Home - Ryllandra Rose

      The Journey Home

      Copyright 2010 Ryllandra Rose

      Published 2015 by Ryllandra Rose at Smashwords

      Cover Image © Leeloomultipass | Dreamstime.com

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Chapter One – The Letter

      Chapter Two - Confidence

      Chapter Three – Childhood Revisited

      Chapter Four – Closure

      Chapter Five – The Desk

      Chapter Six - Elizabeth

      Chapter Seven – Once There Was Another

      Chapter Eight – Mind Games

      Chapter Nine – Unchained Memories

      Chapter Ten – Zachariah

      Chapter Eleven – Alice's Determination

      Chapter Twelve – Alice and Eloise Rose

      Chapter Thirteen – Each Child is Different

      Chapter Fourteen – Aunt Maud

      Chapter Fifteen – At the Cemetery

      Foreword

      This is a work of fictionalised non-fiction. Names have mostly been changed to protect the guilty. They're always protected on the pretext of protecting the innocent, but it's a lie, they're all lies.

      Much of the content is true. It might be altered a bit to keep your interest, or it might not be. Some people will have an uncanny likeness to someone you know, that's just how life is, it's probably not the person you think it is though, especially given the way I've changed things around to protect the identities of the participants. There will always be someone who can be fitted to a description, no matter now unique we tell ourselves we are, or how unique we might tell each other we are, we're all the same in oh so many ways.

      We're all capable of wondrously good and horrendously bad actions and non-actions. I recall a rhyme once written in my autograph book. Do you recall when autograph books were all the rage? I had two or three or maybe four; I've forgotten, that was a long, long time ago.

      Anyway, the rhyme went like this, There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves anyone of us to talk about the rest of us. Funny what you can remember from the long distant past.

      I've always tried to see the good in people. I know it's there, just like I know the bad is in there too. I used to think we really could rise above the horrors of the baseness of humanity, but I'm not so sure anymore. Too much has happened …

      The Letter

      The past is always waiting …

      She sat at her little desk, determination throbbing through every particle of her being. The documents lay quiet and still, arrayed on the smooth surface before her. Her mind began to tentatively touch upon the unfamiliar concepts outlined on those four silent sheets of paper. She knew they were silent, but she could hear them screaming possibilities at her. Ms Patricia Eloise Rose Shaddrion – no one called her that anymore. When she had seen the name on the envelope the old feelings of fear had returned. She had been so afraid of discovery! Then she saw the return address. Condillian, Spence & Proctor, Solicitors, Greenmace Park, Glendryonn and realised there might be more than one reason for someone to go to the trouble of finding her. That had been three days ago and now she was only one day away from finding out how just much truth was contained in that letter.

      Patricia glanced back at the typewritten words, Please accept our deepest condolences … Impatiently, she moved her gaze further down the page, We take this opportunity to inform you that you have been named as a major beneficiary of the Shaddrion Estate … no other living issue … All formalities having been carried out satisfactorily … , Blah, blah, blah, she thought, this language doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. She noted dates, times and places, knowing no matter how much she hated the thought of returning to the past, she would

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