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Quinton's Messages
By: Ernie JacksoneBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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In 2009, the Jackson family was transformed forever when nine-year-old Quinton Stone Jackson, son of Ernest and Kristine and brother of Cheyanne, was killed in a tragic accident during the family's annual vacation. In this memoir, Ernest explores his family's lives leading up to the crash and details the accident and its resulting effects on Quinton's family. Quinton's Messages follows Ernest and his family's journeys through the tragedy. As he attempted to find meaning for his life, Ernest scrutinized his job and the busy work it involved, and he realized that he had higher aspirations for his career. He sought direction for his life, and he found that following his son's death, when he needed direction the most. Ernest also shares the eye-opening events that followed Quinton's death as Quinton visited them and left messages for Ernest and his family after his transition. These experiences opened the family's reality to a much larger universe. A story of loss, grief, and hope, Quinton's Messages recounts how the Jackson family survived the sorrow they experienced after the loss of their beloved son and brother.
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| Title of eBook: Quinton's Messages | |
| Release Date: 09-08-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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| Parent title | Quinton's Messages |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9781462049707 |
| File size | 49677 |
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Quinton's Messages
Chapter One
Found and Lost AgainWhen I was twenty-seven, a voice sounded crystal clear in my mind. The voice said that I was ready to be a father and that I would be a good father. It got my attention, and it cut through the mindless chatter that usually goes on in my head. The message surprised me with its clarity and timing. I was single and in a great relationship with an older woman who already had two children but couldn't have any more. But the voice was so clear, that I broke it off with her, and Kristine entered my life not long afterward.
At the time, Kristine was working for Honeywell in the accounts payable department. My father, and eventually I, would pick up monthly janitorial contract checks from her. Fearing being laid off, Kristine spoke to my father about looking for work, and at the time, we had an open position in the office. I interviewed her over lunch at a nearby restaurant, but the conversation was awkward; I tried to find some commonality between the two of us, while she was all business, focused entirely on landing a job. We definitely did not hit it off, but I rationalized that I didn't need to hit it off with her for her to be the right person for the job. She had a bubbly personality and was quite attractive with short dark hair, brown eyes, and a curvy physique; she was just cool toward me.
Not long after she started, I could tell that she really didn't like me. She must have thought I was a slacker, because I usually came in after she opened the office. I showed up after working out in a local gym and, oftentimes, after performing janitorial inspections at our accounts. She also seemed to struggle
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