Joan Brown

Looking in the Mirror Joan Brown

JuneGreen was born in Charleston, South Carolina,during the depression, 1936.¿ As a smallchild she lived through World War II ,and sheexperienced the evils of segregation. Herchildhood was a good one, living in a middle class Negro family.¿ She attended a private school and received anexcellent high school education. Laterin life June concluded that her family was dysfunctional, alcohol was thesubstance abuse of choice.¿ Familysecrets were very profound, and as a small child she realized that she wasdifferent from her siblings.¿ Often shefelt that the family members were walking on egg shells around her.¿ She later learned that she was the product ofa very deep family secret.¿ She searchedfor decades, trying to find the truth about her birth parents. Junewas abused, by her so called uncles, her mother told her to keep the secret. Aftergraduating from college she married her college sweetheart, and then became thevictim of spousal abuse. Aftersuffering for years, she divorced her husband, and finally had peace andcontentment. Herlife finally changed when she met the tall, dark and handsome, Harrison Davis.