Memoir of Dave Pelzer’s adult life after surviving severe childhood abuse, focused on resilience, relationships, and forgiveness.
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Memoir of Dave Pelzer’s adult life after surviving severe childhood abuse, focused on resilience, relationships, and forgiveness.
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"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality.
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What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Adult relationships and marriage strained by unresolved trauma
Violence & gore
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Graphic recounting of childhood torture and brutal physical abuse
Profanity
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Substance use
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Parental alcoholism; abusive mother depicted as alcoholic
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Military career and Gulf War-era service mentioned in passing
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Graphic sustained child abuse, starvation, and torture; lasting trauma
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