{"product_id":"loving-my-daddy-to-death-barbara-joe-williams-9798626323030","title":"Loving My Daddy to Death","description":"Introduction: My name is Samantha Denise Holloway. I'm sixty years old today. I grew up in a small southern town with my parents and younger brother. When I was a little girl, I loved my daddy to death. He was a kind and gentle man who gave me everything I wanted. However, after he went off to the war in the sixties and came back with a head injury, he started changing a little bit every day. He started drinking, gambling, and running the streets on the weekends like a single man.Once my brother was old enough to start walking and talking, Daddy started beating on him. Daddy claimed he was training my little brother how to survive a colored man's life and a white man's war. When Mama tried to reason with him, he started beating on her too. But I was never afraid of him, and he never laid a finger on me. I was his precious princess.The more Daddy seemed to love me, the more I grew to hate him until I couldn't take it anymore. Now I can't remember the exact moment I recognized my hatred for my own father. But week after week of seeing him beating on my mother and young brother left me emotionally drained. I found myself feeling more and more disdain for Daddy and his evil ways. The father I had once loved and cherished was gone; lost in the war six years ago. He came back a changed man, and it wasn't for the better.I had to do something to save my family, or I would soon be the only one living with the monster he had become.I'm not proud of it, but this is the story of how I killed my daddy at the age of twelve in November of 1972. I had to save my mother and brother. I loved my daddy. And I loved him even more after his death. Regardless of what anyone is thinking about me, here's my story . . .Loving My Daddy to Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Joe Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798626323030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Barbara Joe Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487288733951,"sku":"9798626323030","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f6ee5a69-37f4-4ab9-a303-8518af46caae.jpg?v=1778059567","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/loving-my-daddy-to-death-barbara-joe-williams-9798626323030","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}