Is Life One Big Goodbye: Homeless Woman's Survival Story

I blend into the walls, like other women: faceless, no expression—a dead look. I’ve lost my identity, my individuality. I no longer know myself. The other women are young, Black, Hispanic, few White, like me. If there’s a ‘me’ underneath this faceless disguise that has attached itself to my body, I want it to leave, now! After having been married with children, colonial home, belonging to golf country clubs, and divorce, at age 68, after surgery and medical bills, I had no other choice but to sign myself into a Homeless Shelter.

About Author:
Rose Lamatt was born on Long Island, NY, daughter of an emigrant Italian father and a mother from South Philly. She married, raised a family and lived on Long Island until moving to Florida in1985.
She always had a passion for writing. Over the years she has learned that life can change in the blink of eye; and because of several “blinks”, her passion came out.

She writes of her past with great respect and has learned that by giving of yourself, you learn the best of yourself.