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  • These Broken Roads

  • Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman's Story
  • By: Donna Marie Hayes
  • Narrated by: Donna Marie Hayes
  • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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These Broken Roads

By: Donna Marie Hayes
Narrated by: Donna Marie Hayes
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Donna Hayes had fortitude and smarts. At the top of her game, thriving in New York City no less, her career was soaring on Wall Street, and she was starring in her own one woman show off Broadway. To be scammed by a man she had met on a dating app shocked and shamed her. In Jamaica as a child, death had come for Hayes three times. Each time she survived it.

Every day she dreamed of going to America and joining her family. When she was fourteen, her mother sent for her.

Donna's elation was soon offset by the challenges of her new life.

From her mother's strict church to an early marriage, single motherhood, and a second disastrous and abusive marriage, when Donna escaped, she vowed to never again subject herself to relationships and people who harmed her.

Then Hayes met the man of her dreams on a dating site. Before long, he proposed and tattooed her initials in large bold letters across his chest. But $177,000 later, it all fell apart. Hayes learned that she had been a target from the beginning. Suddenly, her financial independence was at risk.

This is the story of how that woman rose yet again to find her power, making the scam the last run along the broken roads of her past.

©2023 Donna Marie Hayes (P)2023 Tantor
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Loved the strength she showed throughout her life experiences.

Once I started listening I couldn’t put it down. Absolutely loved her story from beginning to end.

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The long term affects of abandonment

We never learned if Donna got the self help she needed to have a healthy relationship.

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Captivating

Very well-written, tragic yet heartwarming, and overall captivating story. My heart goes out to the author

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She told her truth 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I love how she told her story because it could happen to anyone. Thank God for her grandmother. Just a wonderful story about life. I love everything about her and her Jamaican accent, I love it
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Exactly what I needed when I needed it

There are many books on how to face grief, but this is the first I’ve found on financial abuse. With money already being an awkward focus of attention, coming to terms with it being stolen from you by someone who claims to love you presents with devastating pain, shame, and isolation. Count me in as one of this author’s forever fans. I’m already searching ways to learn more. I truly hope she offers coaching sessions as I would take one. You can hear her on podcasts like”This is Actually Happening”….I found her on that podcast last night which led me to this book and a noticeable loosening of the tension in my muscles and salve to my heart from this lonely pain. Thank you Donna.

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Lesson learned and a heart to trust again!

This story will rip your heart out but it also gives us hope! This came at the exact right time in my life. Thank you 💕

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