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Could you please resend the message you included with your friend request? It was cut off and I did not receive the entire message. Thanks. I was also unable to send this to you as a goodreads email message. I kept getting the error 'To user was not found."

R.D. Murray This is very hard to write, but when I was in the 3rd grade I was bullied so badly I wanted to kill myself. All because I was shy, quiet and awkward. …moreThis is very hard to write, but when I was in the 3rd grade I was bullied so badly I wanted to kill myself. All because I was shy, quiet and awkward. I was thrown in the boy’s bathroom by these 3 particular kids who would punch and kick me as hard as they could. I could barely walk as everyday they would abuse me over, and over again. The other kids in school would just laugh at me and no one helped. In fact, those same kids who watched and knew about my abuse would just join in, tease me, and they even threw food at me during lunch. My mom came to school so much to fight for me, but it didn’t help. I had just about given up living in this world. Somehow God saved me and I found writing. It was an outlet to take me away from the pain I was going through in this world. I wanted to create different characters, and a different world just to escape. Writing really saved my life. Now at 42 I just released my first novel. My Dead Blue Caterpillar. I have to say I still am a bit shy so this is hard for me to ask but any support for my book would be very helpful. It’s very inexpensive and a good read. I want to thank you deeply from the bottom of my heart.

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I read your proposed author intro in the Support for Indie Authors group. Thank you for your courage in trying to post it. Do you see ways in which your past strongly influences your writing today? Also, you say, "Somehow God saved me." Is that something that you can see being incorporated in your writing? Please don't feel you have to answer these questions. I'm not trying to be invasive, just hoping to understand.

R.D. Murray Thank you so much, I feel like if it wasn’t for my pass I wouldn’t be writing today because as I was going through my abuse I just wanted to get away.…moreThank you so much, I feel like if it wasn’t for my pass I wouldn’t be writing today because as I was going through my abuse I just wanted to get away. I didn’t know how to, so I started writing about things to take me away to other worlds. I believe God placed writing there to save me. I also want to write a memoir later on about how I got here maybe titled From Bullied to Author. (less)

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I almost lost my life, after two years I'm back.

Thanks for continuing to be my friend on here, I have been off Goodreads for two years to recover. I am finally back on, I was run over by a reckless driver and I almost lost my life in the process. I was in a wheel chair for a year and Im beginning to walk with pain but I can walk now, I can't work to support my 4 kids and my wife like I use to anymore so I decided to continue to push my ebooks t Read more of this blog post »

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