Grasping for Love

Mama''s gone. Daddy''s gone. Mama''s gone. Daddy''s gone. I would repeatedly chant wile cradling my head rocking on the bed. What would cause a four-year-old child to behave that wa for hours until someone stopped her? My life barely begun and already I displayed symptoms of extreme abuse. It is a horrific true story about the years of torment that one child had to endure for the entirety f her childhood and adolescence. Loveless and along I had to somehow cope and manage the best I knew how surroundd by an alcoholic mother who was hardly around a father who gambled and was home long enough to leave scars in addition to an aunt who firmly believed in spare the rod spoil the child. Tis made up my so-called nurturing family. These were the irresponsible adults I tried to turn to for cre and tenderness My siblings who I wanted to lean on for support and to love were dependent on me for that love and care which was lacking in our household. My story is an engaging tale about t