Pegi Handley tells a story of outrageous parental abuse, followed by a foster parent's mental abuse and enslavement. With no experience to learn the expectations of a normal adult life, For many years loaded with guilt she didn't understand. She raced on in confused and dysfunctional manner. Over 70 years old, and with the help of writing, free at last Pegi began her long climb into the normal world. Pegi survived starvation, tuberculosis near deafness, the terror of mental institutions, and the horror of recognizing that she, too, had become an abusive mother. as a little child, she was forced to buy he mother's murdered babies and she repressed those memories until, as an adult, Pegi buried her own son. This chilling tale of neglect, abuse, abandonment, madness, and murder is nevertheless inspirational because of her ultimate and singular triumph. Pegi lived through more in the first eleven years of live than most people have to live through in an entire lifetime. And yet, when finally placed in foster care, torn from the only family she ever knew, forcible separated from the young brothers and sister she fought so hard to protect. Pegi found herself confronted with a new kind of terror. Grateful for the slightest acknowledgment, the smallest bit of attention, in young adulthood she found herself continually manipulated and abused by a selfish and controlling foster mother.