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    Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmothers Secret Journal by Diana M. Raab

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    (Hardcover)

    • Pub. Date: September 2007
    • 166pp
    • Sales Rank: 526,128

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      • Pub. Date: September 2007
      • Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books, Incorporated
      • Format: Hardcover, 166pp
      • Sales Rank: 526,128

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      Diana has questions she wishes she could have asked her beloved grandmother, Regina, a spirited woman who loved her, cared for her, and even taught her to type her first stories on a Remington typewriter. When Regina inexplicably took her own life at age sixty-one, ten-year-old Diana was devastated.

      More than three decades later, Diana discovers Regina's secret diary. She learns all about her grandmother's life—from the tragic death of her mother when Regina was twelve and her suffering in Vienna during World War I to her escape from the Nazis with her husband and daughter to her eventual arrival in the United States.

      Diana's reflections are interspersed with excerpts from Regina's diary. This unique, braided narrative presents a touching portrait of the relationship between Diana and Regina, and the way Regina's life and love still resonate with Diana today.

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      Raab's impressions are interspersed with excerpts from the journal, offering a sensitive and penetrating image of their loving relationship.

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      Regina's Closetby RElmansouri

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      November 25, 2009: Diana Raab wrote a compelling book about her grandmother and the touchy subject of suicide. As a long time journal writer, I can relate to Regina and the desire to write things down as a kind of therapy and a way to remember. She longed for her mother's love but it was never given. Even in marriage she didn't have the love that she desired and most of all needed. Regina had a life unfulfilled. I, too, have experienced the suicide of two family members. Often, I asked the question why? We can never fully know what another's path is really like and the demons they had to face. Diana Raab wove two lives together by sharing Regina's story as well as her own. Her story is inspiring and thought provoking.

      Regina's Closet by Diana M. Raabby Aerolynn

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      September 13, 2009: Such an amazing true story of survival, and determination of a young girl. You are honored to be the reader of a diary which makes you feel the pain and suffering, yet the strength of this amazing child. As she pulls herself out of every stone walled situation, her depression is underlying, but never allows it to surface through her desperation. Knowing the scripts in between are from her grandaughter's pen, you feel the soul of this family. I was truly unable to put the book down, and read it in one sitting. An excellent read for teenagers as well as adults.


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