My Pain Is My Legacy

Growing up in a fast, dysfunctional world was normal for Alex. Everywhere she went, she was subject to abuse. She would catch the public bus at the age ofeight years old in the rough city streets of DC. In the 1980s, watching drunks and drug addicts crowd the bus stop was everyday life. Forced to becomestreet smart after being a ward of the courts for eight years, Alex thought things could not get any worse. Not surprisingly, they did. After trustingsomeone that she thought had her...
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Growing up in a fast, dysfunctional world was normal for Alex. Everywhere she went, she was subject to abuse. She would catch the public bus at the age ofeight years old in the rough city streets of DC. In the 1980s, watching drunks and drug addicts crowd the bus stop was everyday life. Forced to becomestreet smart after being a ward of the courts for eight years, Alex thought things could not get any worse. Not surprisingly, they did. After trustingsomeone that she thought had her best interests at heart, she soon finds herself married and pregnant at the age of fifteen, and now a domestic violencevictim. Determined not to let her present dictate her future, she began to reach out to God, with writing as her key to all her misery. With faith andstrong determination, she changed her life path from being an abused child sexually and physically. As you read this book, you will learn to allow theinner child in you to speak and brighten your path while you discover that until you release your past, you too are still a child within.