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    Poems from Behind the Wall
    Poems from Behind the Wall
    Poems from Behind the Wall
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    Poems from Behind the Wall

    By Roxanne Chapman

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    Roxanne Chapman the mother of two girls who eventually married Tom Atkins, and shocking relationship, violent and abusive. This is documented through her debut work in Twelve and a Half Years. While in prison Tom Atkins a pseudonym still protecting her and her family. Tom writes of his love for her that once again turned abusive in a love/hate relationship.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 25, 2007
    ISBN9781465329660
    Poems from Behind the Wall
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    Roxanne Chapman

    From Grand Rapids, Michigan, a small town girl leaves the comfort of her home to go to California to seek new adventures. After all The Beach Boys made it sound so intriguing. 1967 is the year, having freedom of being on her own.Roxanne then got married to an Air Force Airman in 1967 and they both had two daughters, by the time the youngest daughter was seven, unfortunately they both were divorced. Roxanne goes her own way and a month later starts seeing Tom Atkins. The beginning of 12 ½ years.

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      Poems from Behind the Wall - Roxanne Chapman

      Copyright © 2007 by Roxanne Chapman.

      ISBN:                  Hardcover                      978-1-4257-8120-0

                                  Softcover                         978-1-4257-8102-6

                                  eBook                              978-1-4653-2966-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or any other, except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without prior permission from the author.

      Four poems that Tom Atkins had put into his memoirs were not solely his, he would write them as signature poems. These are; Happiness, I know something good about you, the postage stamp and Lover’s Lament.

      Rev. date: 03/02/2018

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      Contents

      Author’s Note

      From Behind The Wall

      A Glance

      Today

      First Term—Last Term

      Who wrote from behind? A wall

      I Love You

      I’ve been a Brat

      Every Day

      Something in a Bottle

      My Wonder

      The Best Things

      Forever Love

      I Know Something Good About You

      The Postage Stamp Lesson

      Happiness

      Missing a Love

      May a Grown Man Cry?

      Scars

      Figure It Our

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