✨ A soul-stirring journey of a woman who transformed childhood slavery into a legacy of service, proving that our deepest wounds can become our greatest gifts to humanity. #SurvivalSpirit #FemaleResilience #DepressionEraHeroine 💪 There's an undeniable power in Kevin Heaton's "OPAL: Spirit of a Woman" that reaches beyond typical biographical storytelling into something that feels almost mythical in its intensity. Heaton introduces us to Mary Opal Fetters/George, a woman whose life began with the cruelest of betrayals—being sold into childhood slavery by her own father after losing her mother at age seven. What strikes me most about this narrative is how it refuses to frame Opal as a victim, instead portraying her as a woman who drew from an apparently bottomless well of inner strength. Her "granite-like constitution" and eyes like "a farm pond at dusk" paint the portrait of someone who transformed suffering into wisdom. The Depression-era settin...
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