The Last Tear Drop: A Memoir

This autobiography deals with a dysfunctional family, alcoholism, physical and verbal abuse, infidelity, and an incarcerated father.

It also deals with the author's determination to be a productive member of society and the struggles and hardships she endured to make it happen.

The author has been in education for a total of sixty-two years and is retired from two different school systems and still works a temporary teacher. In the past, she had worked as a teacher, school counselor, and administrator. She became a successful educator as well as a respected woman.

In 2007, she was called in the ministry by God and has been licensed and ordained twice. Someone once said, “God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” The author is a minister at a very large church, and she loves it.

You will also read about the color line that existed between light- and dark-complexioned blacks in the family. It was real discrimination, and the author was not accepted by her my grandmother's family because her complexion was too dark. Her grandfather was a victim of the same kind of discrimination too, but it was an era when dark-complexioned men married women with the Anglo-Saxon look even if they were not accepted.

The author remarried at the young age of eighty. It was a marriage from hell. She and her husband were married on Good Friday, and the marriage was over by July 4. Her divorce was final on June 19, 2019. That marriage was the darkest pit in the author's life.

by Eleanor Hinton

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