This is the memoir of an abused child turned young bride, desperate to escape her life and the past that drives her. The writer tells you what she endured growing up with severely abusive parents. By the age of 2 she suffered not only physical, mental and sexual abuse, but abandonment as well. Her father was an alcoholic with a very dark side. Her mother was completely co-dependent on the man she thought she couldn't live without. Continuously neglecting and abusing her young children, she favored the drunken womanizer who created the hell in which they lived. Sometimes penniless, most of the...