Do Men Remember Anniversaries?
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed.
She puts on her dressing gown and goes downstairs to look for him.
She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall.
She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
"What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room, "Why are you down here at this time of night?"
The husband looks up from his coffee, "I am just remembering when we first met 20 years ago and started dating. You were only 16. Do you remember back then?" he says solemnly.
The wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring, so sensitive.
"Yes, I do." she replies.
The husband pauses. The words were not coming easily.
"Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?"
"Yes, I remember!" said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.
The husband continues. "Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to jail for 20 years?'"
"I remember that too." she replies softly.
He wipes another tear from his cheek and says...
"I would have been released today."
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Jimmy Browder
grew up in a rural and small town community in Indiana. He speaks about
growing up poor in Indiana. "We were so poor that even the poor kids made
fun of us," says Jimmy Browder. His Dad began teaching him how to
play the guitar when he was nine years old. He said he learned to
write poetry and songs by reading books by Rod McKuen, while growing
up.
Jimmy has spent the last 10 years battling terminal
lymphoma cancer. He says it has been the longest battle of his life,
however, since doing only natural treatment and no conventional
treatments, his progress has been remarkable. At several points through
his treatment, the Practitioners and Doctor expected him to lose the
battle. His desire to live and fulfill his goals and dreams have kept him
going.
In October 1990, Jimmy went to Nashville to pursue a
songwriting career. Ten days after arriving there he was run over by a
truck crossing a busy downtown street. The doctor assured his family that
even though he was living after the critical brain surgeries, he would not
stay alive. The brain injuries were too critical to survive. Two weeks
later his family took him home with them to Indiana where he would have to
learn to live again. "When I got to where I could hold a guitar in my hands, I
would sit on my brothers porch and play the guitar all day long, for days
on end," says Browder. Two years later he returned to Texas where his sons
were, and he resides there today.
Jimmy and his many brothers and sisters learned by living
in fear, about child abuse. "I remember one Saturday night when I was
thirteen, that my Dad lost his temper and forced a butcher knife, with
both hands against my 15 year old sisters throat. I was so frightened. I
just watched for her head to come off and fall to the floor, says Jimmy. I
was sure he would kill her. Then, once when Dad and Mom were walking home
from a function at the church, we ran and told on one of my brothers. Dad
got him on the floor and tried to cut his throat with his pocket knife. We
all jumped on his back and started pounding on him. One day when Dad went
in a rage he hit me in the back with a claw hammer and broke the door to
my bedroom to pieces, trying to get to me with that hammer. I had to jump
out the window and run away to safety. Yes, I'm no stranger to child
abuse," says Browder, "at times those scenes play over and over in my
mind. I hope and pray that my "Scarred For Life" project will help parents
realize that child abuse scars their children forever. It scars them for
life!"
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Jimmy Browder / Blog
I was only joking!
Do Men Remember Anniversaries? A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her dressing gown and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee. "What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room, "Why are you down here at this time of night?" The husband looks up from his coffee, "I am just remembering when we first met 20 years ago and started dating. You were only 16. Do you remember back then?" he says solemnly. The wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring, so sensitive. "Yes, I do." she replies. The husband pauses. The words were not coming easily. "Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?" "Yes, I remember!" said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him. The husband continues. "Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to jail for 20 years?'" "I remember that too." she replies softly. He wipes another tear from his cheek and says... "I would have been released today."
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TOO FUNNY
Biography
Jimmy Browder grew up in a rural and small town community in Indiana. He speaks about growing up poor in Indiana. "We were so poor that even the poor kids made fun of us," says Jimmy Browder. His Dad began teaching him how to play the guitar when he was nine years old. He said he learned to write poetry and songs by reading books by Rod McKuen, while growing up.
Jimmy has spent the last 10 years battling terminal lymphoma cancer. He says it has been the longest battle of his life, however, since doing only natural treatment and no conventional treatments, his progress has been remarkable. At several points through his treatment, the Practitioners and Doctor expected him to lose the battle. His desire to live and fulfill his goals and dreams have kept him going. In October 1990, Jimmy went to Nashville to pursue a songwriting career. Ten days after arriving there he was run over by a truck crossing a busy downtown street. The doctor assured his family that even though he was living after the critical brain surgeries, he would not stay alive. The brain injuries were too critical to survive. Two weeks later his family took him home with them to Indiana where he would have to learn to live again. "When I got to where I could hold a guitar in my hands, I would sit on my brothers porch and play the guitar all day long, for days on end," says Browder. Two years later he returned to Texas where his sons were, and he resides there today. Jimmy and his many brothers and sisters learned by living in fear, about child abuse. "I remember one Saturday night when I was thirteen, that my Dad lost his temper and forced a butcher knife, with both hands against my 15 year old sisters throat. I was so frightened. I just watched for her head to come off and fall to the floor, says Jimmy. I was sure he would kill her. Then, once when Dad and Mom were walking home from a function at the church, we ran and told on one of my brothers. Dad got him on the floor and tried to cut his throat with his pocket knife. We all jumped on his back and started pounding on him. One day when Dad went in a rage he hit me in the back with a claw hammer and broke the door to my bedroom to pieces, trying to get to me with that hammer. I had to jump out the window and run away to safety. Yes, I'm no stranger to child abuse," says Browder, "at times those scenes play over and over in my mind. I hope and pray that my "Scarred For Life" project will help parents realize that child abuse scars their children forever. It scars them for life!"
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