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Hi Mickey:
I hope that you will find the book is not about Frankie Valli but about the sixties, dysfunctional women, a little girl, and imprinting. I have not made a cent on this book thus far though the sales have been impressive but it would have been nice. Best wishes for a wonderful fall.
April of Course
It is always a risk when you publish something you’ve worked on and are proud of. Unfortunately, I believe others are allowed to use portions of others’ works and it is legal to do so. It’s a sticky situation. I always think about that as well. Keep me posted if you learn anything more. Thanks for reaching out.
April
Hi Craig:
Thanks so much for your honesty. I think that is such a noble character trait. Never lose the capacity to be yourself. It’s delightful.
Thirty years is a long time to be with someone. Especially if it’s marital commitment. But going back and forth three or four times shows some red flags. Have you truly forgiven each other for whatever tore you two apart all of those times? Sometimes we can forgive, sometimes we can’t!
Is it more habit then love? I wonder when the last time you both as a couple felt it was right and you were both moving in the right direction as a team.
As for your drinking, what does that say about your life right now? I would like to offer you a free session. Please think about it. If not, please keep in touch. Life is so precious. You matter and you deserve to be happy.
Prayers sent your way.
April Kirkwood, LPC
I think we still have much growing to do as a culture and we don’t want to recognize that a lot of women are married and unhappy. It doesn’t feel good to even think about. However, when you make peace with your decision, it gives the heart peace of mind. By the way, we don’t need to justify ourselves.
In short, women have been living like this for generations. No one wants to admit it.
Be your best self. Be truthful to yourself. Be aware. Be flexible to change when and if it feels right.
Blessings,
Another woman getting through life.
April
Hi Ms. Kirkwood,
I really enjoyed your first book and look forward to reading the second. There was so much valuable information for young women as well as the insight into Mr. Valli’s character.
I have three questions:
Do you do any seminars? In this celebrity driven culture, young women might be well advised to know what they are facing when they get into a relationship with a celebrity. You’ve been there.
Who is the “Toni” that you refer to as Frankie Valli’s wife? I thought he had only married three times, to Mary, Mary Ann and Randy.
This maybe a sensitive question, but do you know whatever happened to his second wife Mary Ann Hannigan? She seems to have vanished after divorcing him.
Thanks again for sharing your fascinating journey
Hi Charlotte:
I am just getting back to work after my adventure as in The Golden Bachelor. Toni is Frankie’s daughter. Yes, I do guest speaking and seminars. Let me know what area you are interested in. I would love to be a guest at one of your events.
Much love and gratitude,
April
Dear April Kirkwood:
I’m very pleased to announce that the December 2018 issue of our online book review magazine “MBR Bookwatch” features a review of “Working My Way Back to Me”.
Here is the review:
MBR Bookwatch: December 2018
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive, Oregon, WI 53575
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/dec_18.htm#cowper
Cowper’s Bookshelf
Working My Way Back to Me
April Kirkwood & Donald G. Evans
Boudoir Press
https://www.aprilkirkwood.com
9781732349025, $14.95, PB, 156pp, http://www.amazon.com
Synopsis: For rural Ohio beauty queen April Kirkwood, her #MeToo moment came way before the term was coined. She lost her virginity to the middle-aged Frankie Valli at 16, after a decade pursuing a childhood fantasy to be the crooner’s wife.
The affair would go for decades. But Frankie Valli is just a central character in April’s complex story of her struggle to break the generational cycle of abused and dependent women. Indeed, the strong women in “Working My Way Back to Me: A Frank Memoir of Self-Discovery” are filled with enormous love that offers protection, but also intensifies the hurt.
Through April’s eyes, we experience joys and heartaches that echo across more than a half-century of old family secrets and ways, and the triumphs and defeats involved in trying to break the mold.
Critique: It is interesting to note that April Kirkwood has worked over twenty five years in public education and in the mental health field as a social worker, teacher, guidance counselor, mentor for new teachers, and counselor. She presently lives in Florida and Ohio and spends most of her time writing, sharing her story with others, helping women, and is a public speaker.
Her memoir, “Working My Way Back to Me: A Frank Memoir of Self-Discovery” is more than just an exercise in personal catharsis, it is a representative true life example of the effects of a pervasive cultural patriarchally based misogyny — and how a new movement is helping women break from their invisible bonds and emerge as worthwhile and independent women in a pluralist society. While very highly recommended for community and academic library collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that “Working My Way Back to Me” is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $4.99).
Mary Cowper
Reviewer
You have complete permission to utilize the review in any manner you deem useful for marketing and promotion.
This review will also appear in the Cengage Learning, Gale interactive CD-ROM series “Book Review Index” which is published four times yearly for academic, corporate, and public library systems.
Additionally, this review will be archived on our Midwest Book Review website for the next five years at http://www.midwestbookreview.com
I look forward to your next title!
James A. Cox
Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
Hello James,
I’m so sorry it took me so long to reply. It’s been a few years since I’ve been on my sight. My life mate of twenty years, Ralph, died after a long illness. Then two years later I was on The Golden Bachelor which really took a lot of time. However, I am now healed enough and ready to dive back in presenting new and different thoughts about love and life. Please come back to visit.
One more question: May I post this review? The book is getting more attention since I’ve become more well known. Thank you so much for your kind words.
Much love,
April
The Working My Way Back To Me is crazy, even if your inda cancelling Frankie, You make some GOOD references to the songs.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. I’m now on Alexa “Daily Living Tips.” Hope you’ll join me and there and perhaps sign up for newsletter!
Best wishes,
April
where is your real self and your ideal self what side
Arnold: Excellent question. Your real self is often hiding lost in what we’ve been taught and how we believe we should act and behave. The real you is the one that is filled with joy and excitement. Find those seconds when you feel that way and follow their lead. Blessings.
With grace and humbleness,
April
April is the most genuine person I have met! I cannot wait for all her future endeavors.
Hi Heather:
It’s been a few years since I’ve written and been on my site. Ralph’s death took me into a dark state of grief. Then out of no where, I was given the opportunity to be on The Golden Bachelor. Now I’m beginning again with fresh eyes and a heart bigger and wiser than I could have imagined. With my dogs by my side, I think a lot about life. I hope to share it with others and perhaps spark a new idea.
Much love and gratitude,
April
We had only been married 7 or 8 months when my wife stopped letting me have sex. She said I was terrible in bed and said no woman could ever be satisfied by me. I was so crushed & humiliated I did not know what to do. But I told no one & tried to act normally. I was happy to wash the dishes & vacuum our apartment & do laundry. But then she insisted I wear panties. To work. Then she made me give her my pay checks & put me mon an allowance. I needed sex so bad & she told me I was sick & of I needed to beat off to do it into the toilet. I felt myself sinking into an abyss. I was obeying her. Then she openly took a lover. I was so ashamed that my wife needed another man for the sex I was supposed to be giving her.
and she let him come to our apartment and fuck her in our bed. They started tying my hands behind my back so I could not touch myself while they had sex. she told him I was a useless little sissy. That’s when he made me suck his cock. His black cock was more than twice mine and said I should be castrated so I would never disappoint a lady.
That’s when I went to see a sex therapist. A female. She said I needed to accept that I was inferior and that there was nothing wrong with being a sissy. She told me many men were just not meant to have intercourse. That is where I am now! What should I do now? I am just 40!
Dear Don: Although it seems as though she has destroyed your masculinity, in truth, it is ourselves that permit the words and actions of others to rob us from our worth. Be true to yourself. Live large. You have done nothing wrong.
Blessings,
April of Course
I have forgiven Frankie. He is my first love. The judgment of a 6 year old is not equipped, however, for such a dilemma but in that, I forgive the little girl. I have let it go but it is a story of a little girl traumatized in her home and how she attempted, though not with good judgment, to find some safety. If you read for the mental health issues, it is clear.
Can I interview you for a Documentary? All I need is your Email. If you want to know why it is because I am a Huge Frankie Valli Fan and am making a GIANT Google Doc Documentary on the story of The Four Seasons, and I never knew Frankie had gotten into any Controversies. I have many questions about your Story. If you would like to reach out to me, my Email is rdavidjones0928@gmail.com I hope this message will make you say yes. Have a good day.
Hello April Kirkwood,
My name is Joseph W. Brooke. How are you today?? I am interested in how to use healing numbers for attracting monetary abundance or prosperity or unlimited wealth. My reason for asking is that I had been desperately seeking to find ways to earn money, for as long as many years, so that I could afford to receive repeated energy healing sessions, especially for the highly disabling afflictions of my mind, as well as the major physical conditions I also have, etc.
Please respond back to me and email me and let me know how I might be able to use healing numbers, especially for prosperity. It appears that something keeps happening over and over again, delaying me, for as long as many years. Please help me!
Thank you.
Most Sincerely,
Joseph Brooke
Phoenix, Arizona
jb33393@yahoo.com
Hi Joseph;
May I use your question and take out your name to write a post explaining my views on this topic? I’m sorry it’s taken me so long. The love of my life, Ralph, died in 2021 and I took time to grieve. Then as though God said to get up, I got an opportunity to go on The Golden Bachelor which took another six to eight months to do and process.
Please forgive me for not writing sooner. Let me know if I can post about your question.
Much love and gratitude,
April
Dear April
It was a joy to watch you on the “Golden Bachelor” this season.
I decided to google you after Gerry let you go home and was interested to read about your past relationship, books and professional life.
We have a lot in common spiritually and based on our life experience. I’ve been living in Hollywood for 24 years now and had a long-term relationship similar to yours with someone noteworthy, but it wasn’t worthy of the time or my effort. I’m going to read your book and I’d like if we met one day.
I’m a romantic seeking a soulmate and I’ve been incredibly patient waiting many years for her to find me. I’m younger than you but this has not dissuaded me before and won’t now.
To discover more of my personality, you can go to “OKCUPID” username: trulywacked. This is NOT a solicitation.
I’d love it if you simply reply to my email address (100x90k@gmail.com) so we can chat further.
Yours Sincerely,
LV
Hey April!
I just watched you on the Golden Bachelor and was drawn to your energy from your first appearance. After I read a little about your life, experiences, and career I have to say as a 24 year old woman you are inspiring and ahead of your time. Thank you for sharing your story with the world and using what you learned from your past to help people.
I hope you have opportunities to share more of you and your life as a result of the GB because as you probably already know, many fans of the show are now fans of you! Thank you for being an inspiring woman and bringing forth the changes of the collective consciousness through your life and work.
Sincerely,
Zaira
Thank you. I’m just getting back to my website now and they’ve upgraded the process so much I’m relearning it. Much love, April
You are a Coward and I will find your sorry ASS…!
Hi I would like a soul contract reading but was wondering when k would be able to have it!
Thank you!
Hi April my name is Victoria Williams and I just read about you when you were 16 I am big girl United States twiggy look like in when I was 16 I’m at franking in Atlantic City and fell in love and had his baby stay the song is written for me I have been asleep For 52 years due to domestic violence and my back was broke and I lived in hospitals all my life under sedation I’m awake now Frankie asked me to stay and he would buy me a garden apartment for me and his baby but the second biggest landowner in Japan fell in love with me and I refused to stay with him Now that I’m awake and ready story piss me off I’ve lived on welfare all my life anyway for you and I have a 16 year olds that arrogant NF are not gonna get away with it because I’m going to break the news in the national inquirer my daughter has his face and I live with him every day and he rejects her every day and I’m tired of seeing her heart he has beautiful grandchildren and has been denied my daughter to even go backstage to meet her father please don’t say anything to anyone because I’m going to take him down and expose him for all the hurt he caused you and everybody else and me you can Can you touch my phone whenever you want standby without me and I love it would be no Frankie Valli with that money he’s name is because of I love big girls stay working my Way back to you all of it. You are the only one that I’ve told so please keep it between us
Hi Victoria:
I’m so sorry for your pain. How can I help you? Stay strong.
Love,
April
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Can I interview you for a Documentary? All I need is your Email. If you want to know why it is because I am a Huge Frankie Valli Fan and am making a GIANT Google Doc Documentary on the story of The Four Seasons, and I never knew Frankie had gotten into any Controversies. I have many questions about your Story. If you would like to reach out to me, my Email is rdavidjones0928@gmail.com I hope this message will make you say yes. Have a good day.