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    A Family of 21 Kids!: Living with 21 Siblings
    A Family of 21 Kids!: Living with 21 Siblings
    A Family of 21 Kids!: Living with 21 Siblings
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    A Family of 21 Kids!: Living with 21 Siblings

    By Regina Witherspoon

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    This book let you into my life to share some of my memories we had. Yeah we had are
    ups and downs thats with every family, but this is also telling you about my parents' struggles on raising us up.
    Her faith and kindess kept us to strive more in life the things she did for us 10 boys and 11 girls thats a lot to deal
    with growing into teens this wasn't an easy job this was harder then a reality shows no cameras around us this is
    how life really plays out.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 4, 2013
    ISBN9781477298138
    A Family of 21 Kids!: Living with 21 Siblings
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    Regina Witherspoon

    I wrote this book to help others who going through alot and dont know what to do. i want to help them understand alot of things i never knew and found out the hardway. somethings that they thought will never heal and about to give up on everything.just like me i thought no one loved me, or care about me and the things i over heard them saying cause i had looked up to these people i really thought i knew them but i guess not.now i live in south carolina,my parents hometown i had to get use to the country even though i didnt liked it this is where my generation started.and to know now my heart breaks she came back home where she was born. she became ill and years later in 2012 two weeks after her birthday in august she pass way.

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      A Family of 21 Kids! - Regina Witherspoon

      2012 by Regina Witherspoon. All rights reserved.

      Luralee Hylton, Aunt Nancy, Sally-Ann Johnson

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 02/19/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-9792-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-9813-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012923286

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      A BIG FAMILY

      THE BULLY

      THE BIG MOVE

      A BROKEN HEART

      THE CRAZY TEACHER

      BACK TO THE CITY

      FUN TIMES WITH MOM

      SAINTS OF THE CHURCH…

      GENERATIONAL CURSE

      I LOST MY SISTER

      GOD IS GOOD

      SHE LOST A LEG

      COPING WITH CANCER

      HER FINAL STRUGGLE

      TO MY READERS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      This book is dedicated to someone I love

      with all my heart and will miss forever

      part of me is gone too soon.

      I love you Mom…

      A BIG FAMILY

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      21 kids born to Sally & John Witherspoon; both were born and raised in South Carolina. There were 9 boys (Billy, Mackey, Henry, Willie Jr., John & Johnny the twins, Steve, Sam, and Arthur) and 11 girls (JoAnn, Sally Ann, Mary, Geneva, myself, Elizabeth, Barbara, Carrie, Laura, Annette, and Cynthia). She had 1 miscarriage and 4 stepchildren (Stringbean, Toney, Ann, and Pearlie). She even raised two of her grandchildren; Betty and Danielle Witherspoon. We were all born at St. Raphael hospital in New Haven, CT. They knew my mom and dad so well they put her in the newspaper for having 21 kids. No C-section or drugs, my mom had us natural and out of all 21 she had one set of twins, but they didn’t live for long. All my mother’s children had a gift. Even if they didn’t use it, it was still there. Almost everyone in our family was blessed with a talent. My grandma Irene, on my mom’s side, had 19 children of her own. I don’t know too much about her past. She died when I was little. My dad’s mom only had 8 kids and he was the only boy. She may not be with us anymore but she’s the one who gave life to the start of this generation. I know she looks down on us and I miss the talks we used to have. I didn’t trust anyone but her. My parents basically grew up around each other working the same farm and going to the same school and church. He knew her family and she knew his very well.

      My parents already had four kids born in the south before they moved to Connecticut. It’s then when they moved there the journey of a big family began.

      With this growing family dad had to find a job. Mom stayed at home with us. We only had one car. Mom had to dress the younger ones to walk with the older ones to school. This was her routine every morning. She couldn’t leave us home by ourselves. We were too young. Whether it snowed or rained this was our walk to and from every day. Some say God gave my mom so many for a reason. I just don’t understand what they meant by that. As we got older things started to change; the girls became teenagers and so did the boys. There were different mood swings, arguing, yelling at each other don’t touch this or don’t touch that. We had to share everything: bathrooms, beds, clothes, and shoes. We did get along very well though. It took a lot to make us mad at each other. I think if we didn’t get along mom was going to get us anyway. We were living in the projects then. I remember this very well. Dad didn’t let us do anything that much. He had this favorite chair he would sit in and watch TV. Mom would be walking around cleaning and singing while she cooked. Her big red glasses sat on her face as she walked. Her big mouth would open up and sing as if she was in church. I’m sitting down at the door of my room watching her. Oh how she would move her feet and clap her hands side to side. Looking back in my room my sisters were so into the TV, but not me! I stayed at the door in my room staring at mom. Boy! I could smell the food in the air can’t wait to eat that good food lol. Now dad’s sleeping, the TV’s still playing. I could hear my brothers in their room talking and laughing. I peeked around my room to see what they were doing. They were playing Pac-man. I loved that game.

      Looking towards the kitchen I could hear mom calling dad. Buuuubba!

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