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Behind Closed Doors A Daughter Story

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

A Daughter's Story

This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned to their homeland. When their youngest unwed daughter became pregnant, her family disowned her. It was 1949. Abortions were illegal. She was seventeen when she gave birth. She was my mother.

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This book chronicles the effects the birth of an unwanted child had on three families and three generations. It takes you through the unsettling chain of events that followed when my mother’s family sent her away.  It shares her fight for survival to care for us, and how she eventually gave up and left me with strangers.

 

It is an inspirational true story about family secrets, abandonment, a traumatic childhood and the mother and daughter's relationship. 

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   Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass.

      It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life is a beautiful thing. It shouldn't be wasted on self-pity, what if's or why me.

The time would be better spent creating a new and better life for yourself.

Don't give up until you find happiness. It's worth fighting for. It is the greatest accomplishment you will ever achieve. 

   BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story   © Copyright 2017   Daniella DeChristopher, LLC

  Contact the Author:   danielladechristopher@gmail.com 

  

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