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Rebecca Allard

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Contemporary

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Rebecca Allard is the author of Reckless: A Memoir, the story of her addiction to danger. From 1971 to 1981 her career focused on acting in New York City. She then joined a Fortune 500 accounting and auditing company and rose to the position of director of technology implementation.

Rebecca retired in 2000 to focus on her writing and was privileged to study with Vivian Gornick and Linsey Abrams. In 2003, she joined Lehman Brothers where she served as senior administrator on the global equity syndicate desk through the collapse in 2008. Rebecca is currently working on her second memoir about her five years at Lehman.

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How long, oh lord, how long? All your life, Charlie Brown. All your life.

With a nod to Charles Schultz and his creations, Charlie Brown and Lucy, I’ve been facing the possibility that the country I was born into is not capable of facing the truth of how the United States came into being.

It’s Black History Month. That’s a good thing. It’s the shortest month of the year. That’s a bad thing.

I have an understanding of the struggles a black person goes through in this count

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The Complete Essays of Montaigne

by Michel de Montaigne

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“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.”
― Rebecca Allard

tags: domestic-violence, interracial-marriage, memoir, shame, vulnerability

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“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.”
― Rebecca Allard

tags: domestic-violence, interracial-marriage, memoir, shame, vulnerability

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