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    My Secret Life: Days of Heaven in the Realm of the Devil
    My Secret Life: Days of Heaven in the Realm of the Devil
    My Secret Life: Days of Heaven in the Realm of the Devil
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    My Secret Life: Days of Heaven in the Realm of the Devil

    By Karrie Water

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    Often left alone and feeling neglected by her distracted mother, six-year-old Karrie was grieving the departure of her beloved father for military duty abroad. Nothing could have been worse to her troubled mind than that. Several months later, her ten-year-old babysitter taunted her, claiming that she was being sent to an orphanage. She couldn't believe it. As soon as her mother arrived home, Karrie ran to ask whether it was true. Yes, it was true. They were leaving immediately. There was no explanation, at least not that she heard anyway. Her mother packed up all of Karries and her two-and-a-half-year-old sisters belongings. Within three hours, they were in another town, bathed, put in pajamas, and settled into a bed in a Christian childrens orphanage.

    Karrie didn't know anything about Christians or about Jesus and the devil when she arrived. She would now. And actually, maybe the devil was a little more interesting. However, no one would know about this unusual time in Karries life until many years later because she was sworn to a vow of secrecy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2018
    ISBN9781982209964
    My Secret Life: Days of Heaven in the Realm of the Devil
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    Karrie Water

    Karrie Water has a BA in Secondary Education and a MA in Counseling Psychology. She has a bodywork practice and is working on her second book about her life living in a different type of spiritual setting, this time as a student of a realized Indian yogi in an ashram in Homestead, Florida. She currently lives in Washington state with her husband and fellow traveler.

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      My Secret Life - Karrie Water

      Copyright © 2018 Karrie Water.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in all cases, names of people and places have been fictionalized to protect their privacy.

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

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      Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

      ISBN: 978-1-9822-0995-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-9822-0996-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018909788

      Balboa Press rev. date: 08/10/2018

      My extreme gratitude to my writing mentor, A.Q., who encouraged me to tell my story, my writing partners and my husband. You know who you are…

      Contents

      Chapter 1     The Beginning

      Chapter 2     Loss, Worry and Disappointment

      Chapter 3     The Orphanage

      Chapter 4     Jesus, God and the Devil

      Chapter 5     The Truth about Mom and Dad

      Chapter 6     The Christian Way of Life

      Chapter 7     The Things of the Devil

      Chapter 8     Pining for My Father

      Chapter 9     Reunion

      Chapter 10   Auntie Mae

      Chapter 11   The Courtship

      Chapter 12   A Secret to Keep Forever

      Chapter 13   Life with a Hidden Past

      Chapter 14   Proof…Reconciliation

      Epilogue

      I don’t judge whether the characters appearing during my sojourn on this earth are good or bad. The reason is because I don’t know what agreements we had with each other about which parts we’d play in this story, nor the nature of the soul development we’d hoped to experience when we came down into these human bodies.

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      A box arrived in the mail in early spring. There was no name on it; only an address in Washington state. An internet search of the address indicated it was probably from one of my siblings. Inside were artifacts from my childhood; all the greeting cards I had ever made for my parents, a few photos, a surreptitiously recorded tape of a phone conversation I had with my father almost 30 years ago and the thin manila notebook with the word, PAST written in big black letters. I knew previously from a sibling that this file existed and felt a copy of it should have been offered to me earlier since it related to my early life, but it had never been a welcome subject. I had been out of contact with the family and I had learned recently through the internet that my parents had passed several years before. Appearing at a time when I was exploring childhood issues, I was stunned when the PAST file arrived—I never expected to see it.

      The file contained the secret that I had been forced to keep during my whole childhood and early adult life and contained some details that I often wondered about. It seems that it is now time to revisit that forbidden story and release the lump that has been present in my throat for so many years.

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      The Beginning

      You’re gonna go to an orphanage. You’re gonna go to an orphanage, triumphantly chanted that mean-spirited ten-year-old babysitter whom my mother had hired to watch my six-year-old self and my two-year-old sister. I stayed silent. The notion was incomprehensible to me.

      My heart was still healing from the loss of my father. Just nine months earlier, my father, who was the joy and security in my life, was transferred to Japan by the US military. My playful father was the opposite of my mother. He enjoyed amusing me by doing such things as blowing up a whole bag of balloons so that Blackie, the cocker spaniel, could pop every one of them to my excited delight and by playing Easter bunny hiding, not one Easter basket, but ten little ones so that I could prance around the house with Easter baskets all the way up both arms—while Mother was lying in bed, totally disinterested. I didn’t understand why she didn’t seem to care about me. Looking to my father for attention, I tried to ignore that little ache inside.

      But now he was leaving, and it

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