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I was first reluctant to read this book, due to the fact that I, myself, have a child and could never imagine harming her in anyway. I must admit it was a very tough book to read. The trials and tribulations that David endures are cruel and demented. I could never being to imagine the suffering that his mother had put him through.
The book is about the author David Pelzer's life story as a child growing up in an abusive family. The abuse started when he was around the age of 5 and got progressively worse by the time he was 9. Before that age there was no signs of abuse, he was just a happy child in a loving family, or so it seemed. He took trips with his family, ate dinner with them, played with them, and was well provided for. Things took a turn for the worse when his mother, Catherine, began to heavily drink. His father was always away from home due to his working all the time. The more his father was away the more his mother seemed to drink and abused him. She would......

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