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Wayne: An Abused Child's Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope

by Wayne Theodore, Leslie Alan Horvitz · 2003

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This book is a story that sends the reader careening through episodes of childhood abuse, teenage drug addiction, and as an adult the compulsion to repeat the sins of his father.

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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