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Keeping our Promise of Security to the
Promise of the Promise Land

David Pelzer's novella, A Child Called It, deals with something many people in our country often fail to notice. Almost daily we are bombarded with stories of orphaned children in disaster struck areas, or the starving children in third world countries. However, it isn't very often that we, as Americans, stop to think about the thousands of children in our own country that are going through a personal storm, with the affects of this internal tempest possibly one hundred times worse than those of Katrina or Rita.
The story focuses on a young boy called David, who is a member of a working class (not poverty stricken) family. The second chapter of this story is dedicated to talking about only the good times that young David remembers with his family. He recalls times out at the lake with his parents, and his mothers loving and nurturing embrace on the waterside. He remembers the times before alcohol turned......

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