My Lover Killed Me
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- Category: Lifestyle/People
- Published: Monday, 07 June 2021 16:19
- Written by Regina Garvin-Buckley
by Regina Garvin-Buckley
12 years ago, June 8, 2009. I earned my wings. My name is Yolanda Garvin and this is my story told by my sister Regina Buckley.
That dreadful Monday morning in the parking lot of Parrish Medical Center, my place of employment. I was shot 7 times. All the shots were my upper body. His intent was to kill me and he did. That moment, my life ended and the lives of so many others were turned upside down.
I was mentally, emotionally and sexually abused. He degraded me, he talked about me being overweight, and he stripped me of all of my power. I began to question my self-worth, self-confidence, and my true purpose in life.
I knew Tim Adams before I met Tim Adams. My oldest brother, George Robinson Jr., and Tim Adams met when both were students at Bethune Cookman College back in the early sixties. They became friends way back then and George would talk about him sometimes.
This is a picture of my wife Darlene, when she was eighteen years old and a high school senior. She is smart, beautiful, ambitious, beautiful, woke. (Yeah, I know that I said ‘beautiful’ twice.)
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