Me and Mary: An African American Grandma, the Grandson She Raised, and the Lessons She Taught Him

Me and Mary is a memoir centered around the humanitarian traits that Mary Moore, MMI's namesake, spent her life practicing and perfecting.

A Life Told in 40 Virtues
Using conversations between its two protagonists, Me and Mary uncovers 40 powerful virtues both embodied by Mary and that form the foundation of the Beloved Community itself. 

What people are saying:
"I never thought a book could be both heartbreaking and immensely uplifting at the same time, but Me and Mary does that. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about leading a meaningful life." 
"This might be the most moving book I've ever read."
"A world with more Marys in it would fix EVERYTHING!"

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Me and Mary
An African American Grandma, The Grandson She Raised, And the Lessons She Taught Him
RD Moore, SeaChange Press

PREFACE
Though it’s been years since my grandmother died, for me, it still feels recent, or, even like she’s still here. Mary was, and is, my greatest teacher, the person I’ve tried most to emulate, and the North Star in my constellation. She was the first “mother” I knew, the one person to whom I could always tell anything, and she and I had a bond so unique, I couldn’t begin to do it justice.

Throughout my adult life, people have said to me, “You ought to write about your life.” But it is not my story that I feel compelled to tell. It’s hers. And the only way to explain why she’s so significant to me is by telling her story through the lens of my own, and how the lessons I learned, simply by being in her orbit, shaped the course of my life and every good thing I’ve done in it.

My name is Rodney David Moore. This is my story, as well as that of Mary Charles Moore’s, whose fingerprints are all over my life; probably in more ways than I even know.

This is our story - the story of me and Mary.

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