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  • Story Owner: Annie  Brown
  • Story Title: My journey
  • Story Created: Sunday, March 01, 2015, 7:54:00 PM
  • Chapter Author: Annie Brown
  • Chapter Created: Sunday, March 01, 2015, 8:38:00 PM
  • updated: Sunday, March 01, 2015 8:41:00 PM

As a child, I lived in a poor neighborhood but I always wanted to help others even when I was unable to help myself. I grew up with an innate desire to one day to be able to help others to be all they could be in society. In the course of my teen years I made some mistakes that later I counts as blessings. I became a teenage mother who dropped out of school and married. My marriage was not successful so I got a divorce. I wind up working in textiles to support my children. One thing remained constant over the course of my life was the fact I never lost the desire to help others.

To fast forward to 1996, by this year, I had experienced the loss of my father, mother, three sisters  and my brother. Bitterness and anger were two emotions that I felt cling to me. I had no idea that I was getting ready to embark on an adventure that would become a career and allow me to fulfill that innate desire to help others that I always felt.

My children had grown into adults and the textile industry was beginning to be shipped over seas in the late 1990s. I started to re-assess my life course and decided to get the education that I neglected as a young adult. With my GED and a determination, I enrolled in college and obtained a bachelor degree in social work 2002. By 2004, I was hired as a hospice social worker. This job was more than a place to go each day to work to make a living but rather it was a place to minister to hurting individuals and their families. 

During the course of my tenure with hospice, i learned that there were so many people who had no idea what hospice was.  Like myself, when I was going through my family illnesses before their  deaths, I really believe that I could have benefited from hospice services. Therefore, I wanted to share what hospice is and some stories of the patients I had the opportunity to minister to over the last ten years. Hence, my writing a book and publishing it in 2014 called "My Little People A Social Worker's Journey". The book is in e-book and paperback available at amazon and Barnes and Nobles.

Annie Clara Brown           

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  • ones you have come in contact with.

    Ismahan 4/17/2015 9:52:00 PM
  • This is amazing............I am happy to have learned this and learned your passion for serving mankind. May God reward you for all that you have done for all the comes you have come in contact with.

    Ismahan 4/17/2015 9:51:00 PM
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