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Montclair grandmother empowers women through her debut book
Plainsman
|April 23, 2025
A Montclair great-grandmother has captured her life journey, including her painful experiences, in her debut book Journey's End to inspire women facing adversities.
Berenice Martin, 80, who launched her book last month, faced all kinds of abuse during her 18-year marriage.
"I had to be mother and father to my children, maintenance lady, everything. I've been through emotional abuse and verbal abuse, but mostly physical abuse.
"Sometimes when you are in an abusive marriage, things get so hard for you that you don't see the horizon. You sort of lose hope, but I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and I thought to myself, 'This is not what God intended for me," Ms Martin recalled.
Ms Martin said that although she only started penning her story three years ago, it has been something she wanted to do for almost 20 years.
This story is from the April 23, 2025 edition of Plainsman.
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