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    Seipone: The Mirror
    Seipone: The Mirror
    Seipone: The Mirror
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    Seipone: The Mirror

    By Julia Britou

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    Seipone is a collection of real life stories that are shared for the first time. It is an expression of experiences and pain of the past. In here, there are powerful stories that are going to move you, like those of people who are staggered by the blow of anger, drug addiction, abuse, abandonment, death and financial problems. However, Seipone was identified and established to offer healing and education to readers. It is to be shared and a preparation to a new beginning.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateMar 15, 2011
    ISBN9781456882044
    Seipone: The Mirror
    Author

    Julia Britou

    Julia Britou is a multi talented artist, with over ten years, she is the author of Anonymous (a must read poetry book) and growing to be the best seller. She lives in South Africa with her family. She has also written for some top magazines.

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      Book preview

      Seipone - Julia Britou

      Copyright © 2011 by Julia Britou.

      ISBN:          Softcover                                 978-1-4568-8203-7

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4568-8204-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      Orders@xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      301761

      Contents

      Introduction

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter One Our Childhood

      Chapter Two Great expectations

      Chapter Three I nearly drowned

      Chapter Four It wasn’t easy anyway but I pushed

      Chapter Five Journey to motherhood

      Chapter Six They locked me up with my bambinos

      Chapter Seven I lost everything except my life and children

      Chapter Eight After His Death

      Chapter Nine An Insult

      Chapter Ten Happiness

      Chapter Eleven Achievements

      Chapter Twelve Your pain is also mine

      Chapter Thirteen A Tribute

      Chapter Fourteen Who is to be blamed?

      Chapter Fifteen Love sickness

      Chapter Sixteen I was hijacked with my many drivers

      Chapter Seventeen Birthmarks

      Chapter Eighteen Secret about this book

      Chapter Nineteen They perish of same related disease

      Chapter Twenty They look and sound a bit familiar

      Chapter Twenty one Is that a job?

      Readers Guide

      Introduction

      Seipone is a collection of real life stories that are shared for the first time. It is an expression of experiences and pain of the past. In here, there are powerful stories that are going to move you, like those of people who are staggered by the blow of anger, drug addiction, abuse, abandonment, death and financial problems. However, Seipone was identified and established to offer healing and education to readers. It is to be shared and a preparation to a new beginning.

      It can be an overviewed or overworked Christian book, but we were not born Christians. We were just to follow our parents in every culture that they were practicing. And I still think art / writing is the confluence between symbolic and spiritual goods inspiring relationships among people and groups, renewing experiences and ties solidarity, creating imaginary and poetic dimensions; Indispensable of understanding others and oneself.

      We are aiming to reveal what was never revealed to anyone. There are a lot of humans living under evil and hardships that hardly anyone can believe is happening. Some even think that it’s just story telling.

      To write and tell a story through this book is a lesson itself. We always hear of good people and books, but when are we going to change and talk about the bad things that have happened to us and that we know by speaking up we can make a difference.

      Seipone—Author

      Julia Britou is a multi talented artist, with over ten year experience in the visual arts and literature, she is the author of Anonymous (a must read poetry book) fast approaching best seller status. She lives in South Africa with her family. She has also contributed articles to reputable magazines.

      Julia Keneho Britou

      My praise name

      Ndiku Mthembu

      (I am a Mthembu)

      Wase Mpofana Thukela

      (An ant from Thukela River)

      Wase mandibani’ndlal’ i-wile

      (I am from where the famine is)

      Wena u-indlebe zikhanyilanga

      (With the ears that shows the light of the sun)

      Hamba ubuye Mvelase

      (Go and come back Mvelase)

      Ungakhangwa amathambo asemzini

      (Don’t be chocked by the bones from other villages) or

      (Don’t eat from everybody’s plate even if there is a famine)

      Acknowledgements

      Seipone wouldn’t have been possible without the readers of Anonymous who gave positive feedback about their experiences in interacting with my written words and what they have seen in me as a writer. And the research I participated in.

      My profound gratitude goes as well to my kids, Kabo and Kaho who inspire me to go on and support me in everything that I do.

      I am grateful to have the endless list of most beautiful families of Moqeti, Britou and practical families of Sebesho, Dabula, Bethlehem and many other more who appreciate me the way I am. They always teach me the full love of a family. I look up to them.

      Thanks to my all my editors Madi, Molefi Moleli and Kelly Britou the editor in chief and my experts Xlibris who are always pushing me to work harder than ever and for believing in me and publishing my stories. I am proud that I was able to charm and work with them and I discovered the uncut diamond.

      Life is so

      circulating                  like a

      wheel                            today

      it’s                          on

      top.                    tomorrows

      are                never

      the same as yesterday

      it’s down

      Chapter One

      Our Childhood

      Whatever you do during your childhood might grow with you and can be your future. I grew up writing poetry and telling a lot of stories in a way everyone use to end up listening to me.

      I was four when my grandparents from my father’s side died, and I wouldn’t say I knew them or how they died. I only know my parents and I can just imagine how they looked like when I look at my parents and I believe that they reflect them as well. Observing from my aunts and uncles, I don’t think my father came from a well mannered family but I don’t have an assurance of that, because a child can take upon his own way of living, or maybe even get some influence from outside. From my mother’s side, at least I can say I met her side of the family. I was about nine or ten years of age when they died. But I wouldn’t say I learned much from them as they wanted their

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