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    Growing Up: Crisscrossing the Line
    Growing Up: Crisscrossing the Line
    Growing Up: Crisscrossing the Line
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    Growing Up: Crisscrossing the Line

    By Omar L Rashed

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    What's this kid saying? This poetic memoir tells one child's story of growing up, crisscrossing the line of two worlds. Boy | Man; Genius | Insanity; Love | Hate. Giving voice to real feelings that couldn't be said, nor heard. Until now.

    “Out of the mouths of babes” come enlightening words – sometimes. Mostl

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRashed Lights Ways
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781943740062
    Growing Up: Crisscrossing the Line

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      Growing Up - Omar L Rashed

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2014 by Omar L. Rashed

      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 use only, then please return to www.rashedlightsways.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Many do not ask for worry of the answer. We encourage you to ask. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

      If you never ask, you will never know.

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      Dedication

      For My Family,

      without whom none of these poems would be

      nearly as entertaining.

      For they

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