Post by edafan on Dec 7, 2002 16:27:51 GMT -5
A book by the mother of David Ruffin Jr.
Another attempt by this woman to cash in on her relationship with David. I would never buy it, but I copied the description to this board just for the info.
edafan
"This is a powerful story of love and strength--and one woman's lonesome journey through a labyrinth in pursuit of same. This is a story about my life. It's a sojourn which began at the age of four at the unkind hand of my alcoholic mother, and then twisted and turned throughout time and space. The chaos eventually included the decade-plus astutely spent with my partner-in-time, the late David Ruffin--former lead singer of The Temptations. My memoir is shared with love and sadness, and hopefully a bit of humor and profundity.
The story includes a glimpse into my own early life with the intention of illustrating how it happened that I was already programmed into the "victim" consciousness before he and I met. This made the move into an abusive relationship with David just a natural extension of reality as I knew it to be--love was pain.
With what I hope are insightful philosophies and analyses, I've tried to explain what made David tick. He was more than just "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll". To look for answers, I've gone back into his own childhood, such as it was, to glean anything possible in hopes of understanding how he became the kind of man he did. I believe I've painted vivid pictures of how he was as a person--as a child, a young man, a lover, and a family man--rather than the legend for which he'd been dubiously cast. It was a status for which he wasn't sure he quite qualified--that'll mess with a person's mind!
The tale follows his life all the way from Mississippi to the morgue--through his marriages and affairs, his children (three girls with his first wife, David Junior with me, and the newly-discovered youngest child [see final chapter added recently]), and through all the extreme violence and cruelty. It illustrates how drug use became drug abuse, and offers an opinion as to why he lived his life flirting shamelessly with the jaws of danger, spending his entire life trying to kill himself until he finally succeeded on June 1, 1991. My opinion is offered regarding his puzzling relationship with his brother Jimmie, and I 've written as well about how he treated his kids, especially David Junior.
Mostly everyone already knows that David and Berry Gordy were less than friends, but take a closer look. Take a look at the racism we encountered within Motown. See how l was received by The Temptations, and find out what life was really like on the road with them. I'd like the reader to know about David's intimate side as well as the stage persona, or the dark side. This is really a story of our love, demented as it was. He was the love of my life, and I became his as well--second, of course, to that bad White girl known only as Cocaine . I've shined a small light on the suicides, and the attempted suicides along the way (including my own), as well as the mysterious deaths still unresolved (including David's).
In the meantime, while meandering down this lovely little trail called Life, I was terrorized into looking within for a way to survive the madness--a way through which I could both escape and rescue my child. I knew instinctively that if I didn't, I was facing an exterior escape such as alcohol, drugs, prostitution, murder, institutionalization, and/or suicide. It was a constant struggle to both love David and to maintain sanity, which was precarious at times, as well as try to spare some sorely needed and well-deserved attention for Little David. I have shared some practical tips on the ways and means I utilized in order to wiggle out of the deep, dark hole I'd allowed myself to be dragged into by one leg, even while leaving fingernail marks in the dirt as I went clawing and scratching.
Yet, I am frequently reminded, and so remind the reader occasionally, that David was only human--a struggling soul. He was a beloved child of God like anyone else whose particular hell-on-earth was to act jovial, carefree and unconcerned, while simultaneously (and constantly) battling many powerful demons. He was a child of God who lost the battle--but not the war.
(EBAY SPECIAL: WINNER'S COPY WILL BE SIGNED AND PERSONALIZED BY AUTHOR)
~~WELCOME INTERNATIONAL BUYERS~~"
Another attempt by this woman to cash in on her relationship with David. I would never buy it, but I copied the description to this board just for the info.
edafan
"This is a powerful story of love and strength--and one woman's lonesome journey through a labyrinth in pursuit of same. This is a story about my life. It's a sojourn which began at the age of four at the unkind hand of my alcoholic mother, and then twisted and turned throughout time and space. The chaos eventually included the decade-plus astutely spent with my partner-in-time, the late David Ruffin--former lead singer of The Temptations. My memoir is shared with love and sadness, and hopefully a bit of humor and profundity.
The story includes a glimpse into my own early life with the intention of illustrating how it happened that I was already programmed into the "victim" consciousness before he and I met. This made the move into an abusive relationship with David just a natural extension of reality as I knew it to be--love was pain.
With what I hope are insightful philosophies and analyses, I've tried to explain what made David tick. He was more than just "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll". To look for answers, I've gone back into his own childhood, such as it was, to glean anything possible in hopes of understanding how he became the kind of man he did. I believe I've painted vivid pictures of how he was as a person--as a child, a young man, a lover, and a family man--rather than the legend for which he'd been dubiously cast. It was a status for which he wasn't sure he quite qualified--that'll mess with a person's mind!
The tale follows his life all the way from Mississippi to the morgue--through his marriages and affairs, his children (three girls with his first wife, David Junior with me, and the newly-discovered youngest child [see final chapter added recently]), and through all the extreme violence and cruelty. It illustrates how drug use became drug abuse, and offers an opinion as to why he lived his life flirting shamelessly with the jaws of danger, spending his entire life trying to kill himself until he finally succeeded on June 1, 1991. My opinion is offered regarding his puzzling relationship with his brother Jimmie, and I 've written as well about how he treated his kids, especially David Junior.
Mostly everyone already knows that David and Berry Gordy were less than friends, but take a closer look. Take a look at the racism we encountered within Motown. See how l was received by The Temptations, and find out what life was really like on the road with them. I'd like the reader to know about David's intimate side as well as the stage persona, or the dark side. This is really a story of our love, demented as it was. He was the love of my life, and I became his as well--second, of course, to that bad White girl known only as Cocaine . I've shined a small light on the suicides, and the attempted suicides along the way (including my own), as well as the mysterious deaths still unresolved (including David's).
In the meantime, while meandering down this lovely little trail called Life, I was terrorized into looking within for a way to survive the madness--a way through which I could both escape and rescue my child. I knew instinctively that if I didn't, I was facing an exterior escape such as alcohol, drugs, prostitution, murder, institutionalization, and/or suicide. It was a constant struggle to both love David and to maintain sanity, which was precarious at times, as well as try to spare some sorely needed and well-deserved attention for Little David. I have shared some practical tips on the ways and means I utilized in order to wiggle out of the deep, dark hole I'd allowed myself to be dragged into by one leg, even while leaving fingernail marks in the dirt as I went clawing and scratching.
Yet, I am frequently reminded, and so remind the reader occasionally, that David was only human--a struggling soul. He was a beloved child of God like anyone else whose particular hell-on-earth was to act jovial, carefree and unconcerned, while simultaneously (and constantly) battling many powerful demons. He was a child of God who lost the battle--but not the war.
(EBAY SPECIAL: WINNER'S COPY WILL BE SIGNED AND PERSONALIZED BY AUTHOR)
~~WELCOME INTERNATIONAL BUYERS~~"
