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CAN YOU KEEP YOUR
DECEPTIVE
CALM?

Life’s journey is marked by hidden scars, reminders of the battles we’ve fought, and the strength we’ve gained. But as we tread the path of uncertainty, can we hold onto our facade of calm, concealing the turmoil that rages within?

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ABOUT PATRICIA SKIPPER

As a child, her Mom took her to Sears and Roebuck, Inc. in downtown Charleston. For the first time, Patricia saw a “Colored Only” sign above the bathrooms and water fountains. It had a profound effect on Patricia. Even walking in downtown Charleston meant that the African American would step off the sidewalk to let the White person pass. Patricia pitied the treatment of Black people that she witnessed in the 1960’s.

Patricia attended Divine Redeemer Catholic grammar school and Bishop England High School in downtown Charleston on Calhoun Street. Rednecks called Catholics “fish eaters.” Every week, Rednecks placed rotten fish in the hands of the Mother Mary statue in front of the school. Patricia remembers the nuns having them put the decaying fish in the trash and washing Mary’s hands.

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Life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Anyone who tells you otherwise is deceiving you. The turmoil leaves you with wounds that turn into scars. And you try to conceal it, mask it. Don a deception. You try to run away from your past, but it comes creeping. The only question that remains is: can you keep your deceptive calm?

A stunning light-skinned beauty, Vanessa, raised in a Southern Black orphanage, assumes the identity of a dead White baby.

And thus, she is reborn into her new life, working her way up to the newsroom ranks to become the first female co-anchor of the evening newscast.

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