Now here I am, nearly at the end of my course, and everyone else has moved on. They are all out in the world working at good jobs. There's only two of the old faces left — Tommy and Lucy-Jane. Soon we will be moving out and joining the ...

Author: Martha Long

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781780574042

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever. Before long, Martha is on the way to leading the normal life she has so long dreamt of. She makes friends, begins to put the misery of her past behind her and even experiences her first taste of love. For her, love is a powerful feeling. She has never experienced real affection before and is now plunged into the complex world of love between a man and a woman. The intense emotion consumes her, for this is a forbidden love that can never be requited. After all, Ralph Fitzgerald is a priest, and he will never break his vow of chastity. This love brings heartbreaking consequences and changes the direction of Martha's life for ever . . .

Martha Long. Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes Ma, I'm Getting Meself a New Mammy Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed Ma, Now I 'm Goin Up in the World MA, I'VE GOT MESELF LOCKED UP IN THE MAD HOUSE.

Author: Martha Long

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781780574059

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength to go on. As she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call summons ghosts from the past. She discovers that one of the family is dead and the others need her help. Martha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood. A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death. But finally she sees a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. Could love in an unexpected form pull her back from the brink?

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Author: Martha Long

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781780578194

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that finally she will be able to watch him suffer. But in the hospital she sees a frightened, lonely old man and realises with a shock that he seems to regret his earlier actions. During her vigil, she is joined by Charlie, her beloved little brother, then the ma and some of her other siblings. All of them have suffered greatly and it is clear that no one connected to Jackser has escaped unscathed. But as she sits with him during his dying days, other memories of Jackser come back to Martha – fleeting moments of concern and kindness, and a sense of closeness as he recalled his own tormented past in one of Ireland’s industrial schools. It is a vicious cycle of cruelty and loss that has played out, from which only her own tenacity and wit has provided an escape. Poignant, ribald, poetic and defiant, with its resolution of many unanswered questions about her life this is Martha at her best.

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Author: Martha Long

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781780574943

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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After a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show Martha true love and affection. But their relationship threatened his vocation and he eventually fled to Africa to take up missionary work. Martha never got over losing him and now, after nearly twenty years, he has made contact again. She sets off on a mission to find him and uncover his motives for getting in touch. Does he still love her? Has he left the priesthood? Is he now free to marry her? She needs to know what the future is going to hold.

And to be pecuniarily assisted . now it is time for you to change At the head of the stairs , the mistress of the house met ... and carriages nified gravity . that are bothering the life out of me “ Ma , are you going up - stairs ?

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“There's not much to tell, Ma, but if you must know I took a walk, and I got caught in the storm, and I found an empty barn and fell asleep on the hay.” “Oh? You sure must have slept well.” “Sure did, Ma. Now I'm goin' up to my room and ...

Author: Channing S. Gray

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 9781450046466

Category: Fiction

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I'm goin ' up to the mailboxes now an ' John'll be awaitin ' , an ' I'll tell him he kin come by Gramma's an ' walk with me ... But I ain't aimin ' fer Ma to come between me an ' John like she's done with ever other boy I've looked at .

Author: Janice Holt Giles

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

ISBN: 0813101859

Category: Fiction

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"The story of Hod Pierce, a young man who grows up on Piney Ridge, where generations of Pierces have made a living from the stubborn soil. Hod loves his people and the land but longs for wider horizons, for more education, and for the freedom his imagines can be found in the outside world. It takes World War II to carry Hod away from the Ridge and out into the owrld, and it takes his city-bred wife to make Hod realize that Piney Ridge will always be home"--Back cover.

Have I ever told you I was going to cut it out ? Have I ever , ever told you that ? Mr. WHITE . Ma'am , you told me you won't pay it . You told me you won't borrow . Now , what does that add up to ? Mrs. HARDING . No , IMr. WHITE .

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs

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Category: Collection agencies

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I hollered ; “ Look a bere , sir-- yesterday day , an ' now I was goin ' to set up all night , for I didn't mornin ' I had thirty - six fattening ... But the bustin ' up come too ' soon , so ever he capturs any more white gobblers .

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Now Massachusetts was not under the PPS system during those first 2 years . In the third year , as margins began to drop ... But I do think we have to take seriously the fact that hospital costs are going up three times inflation .

Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging

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ISBN: PSU:000014970498

Category: Diagnosis related groups

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