Did you know that if you close your eyes you can go anywhere? Holly did. Lying on a truck seat or the cold metal top of an old freezer, she would close her eyes and instantly leave her body behind, returning only when the embarrassment of exposing her pudgy adolescent body to her grandfather was over. Sadly, his advances were trivial in comparison to everything else that was happening in her life. She was trapped in all directions, praying, dreaming and waiting for the day to come when she would be free. Sunny Side Up-The Gritty Memoirs of a Crazy Chica is a true story that follows the life of a little girl who spends her childhood living with secrets, abuse and her parents nasty divorce. As a teenager she chooses love over everything else and gets married. For a while life offers her a reprieve and together the newlyweds travel, live and love. Eventually drugs and alcohol become a huge part of her life. Fighting its hold on her marriage resulted in domestic violence. Every time she would try to break away it would always drag her back. Almost 20 years and three kids later life comes to a screeching halt. Years of addiction and abuse erupt into a violent confrontation. As the SWAT team surrounds her family home waiting for her husband to surrender, Holly knew there was no turning back. Fighting for her husband and her family, she prevails and a new life opens up only to set the stage for an ultimate and final betrayal coupled with the rape of her daughter at Ft. Hood Texas. Sunny Side Up is a story that took 47 years before it could be told. It is unfathomable to think that such an ensemble of events could come together and happen in one lifetime. Every bit as gritty as the title says, these memoirs are candidly written from the gut. This is a story of perseverance and the power to overcome horrible circumstances.