Relieving Tortured Strings: a Memoir

Relieving Tortured Strings is a memoir detailing the sickening neglect and monstrous sexual abuse inflicted on Elizabeth Gray Ames starting when she was nine years old. She endured six years of terror at the hands of her tormentor, the silent complicity of her parents, criminal threats from those would have kept her a silent victim, and a civil trial like something out of Cold Case Files. Determined not to be a life-long victim, she used her musical talent and fierce determination...
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Relieving Tortured Strings is a memoir detailing the sickening neglect and monstrous sexual abuse inflicted on Elizabeth Gray Ames starting when she was nine years old. She endured six years of terror at the hands of her tormentor, the silent complicity of her parents, criminal threats from those would have kept her a silent victim, and a civil trial like something out of Cold Case Files. Determined not to be a life-long victim, she used her musical talent and fierce determination first to survive, then to go on and earn college degrees, become a teacher, and work as a professional musician.