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A Child Called "it"

One Child's Courage to Survive
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Jun 15, 2014ManMachine rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Meet Dave Pelzer. Dave is a survivor of "real-life" child abuse of the severest kind. Dave (now a grown man) has written this book chronicling his horrific ordeal at the hands of his alcoholic, mentally-imbalanced mother. Between the ages of 5 and 9 Dave repeatedly found himself a helpless victim while his crazed mother beat him, humiliated him, tortured him, and, yes, even poisoned him out of her utter hatred for him. Although this shocking story is true, at times Dave's harrowing experiences seem to go beyond believability, It's the reaction to his punishments by the other members of his family (especially of his father) that will truly blow your mind. But Dave was a survivor. And, being such, he endured all of the pain that his horrid mother had to dish out and he lived to tell the tale in this heart-breaking book that confirms that Dave was not just an "It".