Tara Samples is a fighter. Her life story is the personification of struggle and strength, navigating a complicated childhood that included living in a home steeped in both love and in violence. As a child, she witnessed on a regular basis spousal abuse at the hands of her uncles, towards her aunt. This was a challenging and confusing time in her life. She was a teenage mother during 1986 and 1988 bearing two children before she graduated from high school. Not one to be detoured, she pressed forward through great heaviness ...
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Tara Samples is a fighter. Her life story is the personification of struggle and strength, navigating a complicated childhood that included living in a home steeped in both love and in violence. As a child, she witnessed on a regular basis spousal abuse at the hands of her uncles, towards her aunt. This was a challenging and confusing time in her life. She was a teenage mother during 1986 and 1988 bearing two children before she graduated from high school. Not one to be detoured, she pressed forward through great heaviness - determined not to be broken. She graduated from high school despite the doubters and went on to attend The University of Akron and The Academy of Court Reporting, majoring in Political Science and Paralegal Studies. As political activist Helen Keller once said, "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." Tara Samples is an overcomer. And in this piercingly powerful memoir, And they Said I Didn't Matter, she shares the raw and rich story of her journey thus far. From teenage mother to Akron City Council member, Tara is an inspiration. She has climbed the rough side of many mountains, but her will to succeed is a living testimony to all who feel forgotten and marginalized. If you have the will and determination, God will make a way. Travel as Tara has - in truth and purpose.
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