Spitting Image
A Foundling's Memoir of Faith and Gratitude
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Ronald G. Levi Jr.
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Ronald Levi
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A 40-Year Search for the Truth
One bright summer afternoon on weekend errands with his mother, 10-year-old Ronald's faint suspicions that he is adopted are confirmed by his mother's careful, well-practiced announcement of the truth. As a child whose appearance is close enough to that of his extended African American adoptive family, he has always felt a part of them, but now things make a little more sense, and a 40-year odyssey of seeking his genetic truth is triggered. The formative years of spiritual training by his Baptist minister grandfather return to steady him as he is confronted by startling revelations of his birth parents' past and his abandonment at a Detroit hospital shortly after birth.
Spitting Image is a sweeping saga spanning hundreds of years that results in the creation of one unique human being who against all odds survives them to deliver a message of faith and great hope. The audiobook infuses the written word with the author's own emotions, personality, and spirituality in a way that only the author himself can deliver. This most personal and transparent telling of a story for the ages will amaze, entertain, inspire, and leave you breathless...wanting more!
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Triumphant!
What a wonderful walk down a Detroit memory lane. This story is an inspiration to those searching for ancestors erased and those sho can trace their genealogy to Charlemagne! It is not only his story, it's is our story, it is America's story!
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- 01-31-22
Spitting Image is a treasure!
One of a kind story with a unique narrator. The book features the good, the bad, the ugly.
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