In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Myra Jane Byers wrote these poems as a young woman trying to sort through everything happening in her life. She wrote about loss, love, loneliness, faith, and the small moments that shaped her. She always hoped to publish her work, but life moved forward and the pages were never shared.

More than fifty years later, her granddaughter-also a writer-was given the original manuscript. Wanting to honor her grandmother’s voice and finish what she once planned to do, she brought the poems together just as they were written.

Just As I Am is a real piece of her history: simple, honest, and from another time. It’s her heart on paper, finally published all these years later.

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