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Benjamin J. Carey

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Born

in Schenectady, NY, The United States

Website

http://www.benjaminjcarey.com

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Genre

Biographies & Memoirs

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Eugene O'Neill, Dave Eggers, Noah Levine, Robert James Waller, Auguste ...more

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March 2011

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We didn't have heat in our house when I was a kid, and that's not one of those "we walked 200 miles uphill to school both ways in a snowstorm" joke. We simply didn't have a furnace, so my old man put a 50 gallon steel drum in our kitchen and we burned wood in it for heat. We scorched our pajamas lining up in front of it to get warm on cold mornings. Lo and behold I decided at 5 years old that when I had a family of my own, things would be better for them. A fire inside me developed(no pun intended), and I spent the better part of 18 years struggling in a small town to overcome my personal demons and succeed with crude tools and no guidance.

At the age of 19 I moved to Manhattan where I attended Hunter College and dated the daughter of a fash ...more

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1 Year Post Chemotherapy

“I don’t need a watch to tell the time. I don’t need the sun to help me shine” -Shawn Mendes

Sully’s cancer journey started when he was diagnosed with Acute B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia at 10 years old.

This month he completed his first year of normalcy and is cancer free.

There are follow ups with doctors, but as of a year ago there is no more chemotherapy, no more sleeping off t

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“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”
― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

tags: anger, art, authors, babies, birth, books, boredom, death, depression, disdain, disease, disgust, distance, dying, enjoyment, family, fondness, friendship, grieving, happiness, hate, illness, knowlege, literature, love, marriage, mourning, obsession, passion, reading, romance, sadness, thirst

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“It's amazing how we wake up every day and just take for granted that life will go on. We know the reality that it will end at some point, yet we still wake up every morning believing deeply, that we will live forever.”
― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

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“It's only as bad as you make it.”
― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

tags: adversity, inspirational, life, strength

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“As the years go by those relationships are tested, and only then do you realize their true nature. Only after they've been tested through weddings, moves, funerals, divorces, births and other stages in life are you able to judge them. Until then, 'best friend', 'good guy', etc are only labels. In the end, it's interesting; often surprising to see the results.”
― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

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“It's only as bad as you make it.”
― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

tags: adversity, inspirational, life, strength

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“Funerals aren't scheduled.”
― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November

tags: adversity, death, destiny, dying, funerals, life, living, strength

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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

tags: family

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