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Merry Christmas! to you and your families I honestly had this plan to share something inspirational, to impart you with a positive message of love, kindness, gratitude, generosity and just the art of being an awesome human being in general. But truth be told this message is being currently preached and regurgitated over and over and over again that i'll be surprise if you haven't heard a version of it before. Today's Christmas was honestly like a regular day for me. I didn't do anything I wouldn't have typically done on a lazy Sunday with no work lol. I worked out. Did some runs around the fields and also some stairs workouts.  I ate. Some good food/some bad food .  Drank some coffee and basically lounged all day.  I swear in another lifetime I am a cat because I have perfected the art of solo lounging at home. If I must impart some type of wisdom it will be this 2 things 1. Buy a gratitude journal and everyday find something positive ...

If you're looking for a Hollywood blockbuster story line , with a somewhat happy ending despite the sad reality of slavery, this is not the novel for you. This book is raw. It does not sugar coat the slave experience or how expendable their lives where. I took me more than a month to read this book because it was emotionally tough to get through the chapters. I had to put it down several times and walk away from it but I think that's the whole point. That this was a horrible time in american history and not some far fetched horror movie. If you have any compassion in you, it's suppose to make you feel that sad. Even though on one end it's a work of fiction, it is still a very fair depiction of what the slaves went through. Somewhere in America, someone's great grand relatives went through this and this may as well have been their biography. This story has no happy ending and in reality when you look at the black american experience today and what's...