Gripping my arm, Mother held ...

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.
 Dave Pelzer

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well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents
 Dave Pelzer
David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.
 Dave Pelzer
Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.
 Dave Pelzer
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me.
 Dave Pelzer
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
 Dave Pelzer