Congrats goes out to Choose Terrinee Gundy! She has launched her very personal memoir! She was solely 5 years outdated however decided by no means to be anybody’s sufferer or stay a lifetime of excuses. However with a junkie for a daddy, would a younger baby’s dedication be sufficient?
The Daughter of A Junkie: A True Love Story is a first-hand account of a unprecedented younger lady who escapes the ghetto trappings of the underserved and impoverished communities through which she lived. Hellbent on being no one’s sufferer and with sheer dedication, Terrinee Gundy realizes her childhood dream of turning into a lawyer and a choose.
In The Daughter of A Junkie: A True Love Story, Terrinee is shrill and clear relating to all the unpredictable risks she finessed with a junkie for a daddy. She takes you thru the slums of the Deep South with close to loss of life, appalling experiences that began in kindergarten and continued to “The Promise Land” on the faculty campus of Clark Atlanta College.
As a memoir romanticizing the unparalleled moments of her household’s struggles, Terrinee is unapologetic about her household’s ghetto love story. Regardless of her daddy’s drug dependancy to crack cocaine for over forty years, she was relentless in defying the chances of a chaotic, dysfunctional setting flooded with medicine, poverty, racism, the police, and an ineffable quantity of calamity to succeed in the very best heights of success in her subject.
Just like the fictional tales of Dope Fiend by Donald Goins, her story is entertaining, thrilling, but factual, in addition to veracious as recounted via the lens of a extremely educated junkie’s daughter. Inspiring to anybody who’s confronted by drug and dependancy issues within the house, Terrinee epitomizes the ability of a decided lady who focuses on issues that she will be able to management versus issues that might in any other case management her.
Uncooked and palpable, The Daughter of A Junkie: A True Love Story is an inspirational memoir in regards to the energy of dedication in a dysfunctional relationship, perseverance, and the power of the human spirit.
Order your copy now and dive right into a truthful and finally empowering missive about one five-year-old’s dedication to stay life to the fullest.
In regards to the Creator:
Terrinee Gundy is a mommy of two superb kids, a sister, an aunt, a good friend, a lawyer, a choose and the daughter of a Junkie. Terrinee was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida the place her daddy’s drug addition to crack cocaine wrecked her household and residential life, then she spent difficult years in South Georgia. Regardless of an early lifetime of fixed chaos and dysfunction, Terrinee excelled academically, and finally reached her desires of turning into a household first-time faculty graduate from Clark Atlanta College, in addition to, from the College of Georgia College of Regulation. The Daughter Of A Junkie: A True Love Story provides a entrance row seat of Terrinee’s account of navigating via traumatic land mines whereas rising up within the ghetto that’s intertwined with infinite love tales. The Daughter Of A Junkie: A True Love Story is Terrinee’s first e-book. Terrinee resides in Atlanta, Georgia along with her daughter, MiaMichelle, and son, Kevin.
Upon commencement from regulation college, Terrinee labored as a state and native tax affiliate for KPMG and Cox Communications, Inc., respectively. In 2012, she was appointed to the bench of the Justice of the Peace Court docket of Fulton County in Atlanta, Georgia. As a Justice of the Peace Choose, she participated in a number of packages associated to educating the youth and public in regards to the judicial system. Terrinee served as an adjunct professor for John Marshall Regulation College,
instructing “Accounting for Attorneys” and “Regulation Agency Administration.” Integrally concerned locally, Terrinee has served and partnered with The Andrew Younger Basis, The King Middle, Woodruff Arts Middle, Federal Dwelling Mortgage Financial institution of Atlanta, Nationwide Black Arts Pageant, 100 Black Males of Atlanta, and Yr Up Atlanta. first and solely feminine mentor for Choose J. Antonio DelCampo’s Male Intervention Program in DeKalb County, which centered on stopping recidivism by felony offenders from 18-24 years of age, in addition to, a Guardian Advert Litem for kids within the Truancy Invention Program. She works intently with the Atlanta Workforce Growth Company intern program, aiding faculty college students with their profession paths. She additionally speaks incessantly on varied panels and packages geared in direction of younger folks and rising professionals. Additionally, she is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
In 2013, she was appointed to the bench of the Municipal Court docket of Atlanta, the place she presently presides over the DUI Division. Terrinee beforehand authored a column in Atlanta Tribune referred to as “Meet the Choose.” With that, she aimed to acknowledge and humanize the judges featured by sharing extra attention-grabbing details and private attributes. She was additionally the editor of The Municipal Quarterly, a e-newsletter she put out along with her workers to focus on extra present occasions, efforts by different authorized professionals to serve the group, and the development in customer support initiatives on the court docket. Terrinee stays dedicated to serving her household and the general public far past the courtroom.
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