I Want My Darn Skates

by Samantha Lewis

Overview

I Want My Darn Skates is about the life of Samantha Lewis from about the age of 9 years old. She doesn't graduate because she marries and becomes pregnant. She enters the Air Force, becomes a commissioned officer, and is retired early. She eventually gets back to work before having another child. Her brother, Josh, moves in on her mother and begins to sell drugs. Samantha knows this brother is selling drugs because she is buying drugs from him. Another brother, Rufus, becomes part of an unsuccessful marriage and ends up on crack cocaine and living on the streets. Samantha is having seizures due to the tremendous amount of stress she is under. She is bickering with her siblings, and she is having trouble in her marriage. She loses her driver's license and she loses her job. She cries out to God. God tells her that what she is going through sounds like a great story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781778390135
Publisher:	Stephanie Smith
Publication date:	09/10/2021
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

My name is Samantha Lewis and I'm from a poor black family from Birmingham, AL. My book covers my elementary and high school years, which lead to an early marriage and not graduating. I enlisted in the Air Force, my first marriage ended, but I completed college and became a commissioned officer. While stationed at Langley AFB, VA., I remarried and hand a child. I became ill and was diagnosed with sarcoidosis. I became very ill so much that the Air Force retired me. I returned to Alabama and the circumstances began which led to me writing my book. I had my third child but my marriage is falling apart, my mother dies, my family is fighting, two of my brothers die and I end up on cocaine. With nowhere to turn, I turn to God and He tells me that I have a story in me. He tells me if I write it that He will bless it.