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Melvin Baker


Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
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I was born in San Francisco during WWII. My family moved to Texas after the war and then to Duncan, Oklahoma in 1950. I went to college only a few years. I moved to Dallas,Texas in 1965. I moved back to San Francisco in 1966 where I lived until mid 1987. I moved to Oklahoma City and found a job. My job transferred me to Dallas in 1989. I eventually worked for and retired from the State of Texas in 2013. My book is about how you can be told that you are a bad person because of what a relative had done to me. I carried this guilt until I was in my fifties. That is when I had a talk with my sister and two cousins and told them about being molested. I learned that they also had been molested. I realized that I was not a bad person but just one of many who had experienced the same thing. I am now totally past that and have moved forward, I took up painting in 2015 using denim, vinyl and other fabrics. I have had two art shows this year..