... . Every ounce of tiredness my body once had, had vanished. Before the plane had reached the runway, my heart was reaching out to Dave Pelzer, who was sharing his unbelievable life story of abuse and survival with his book, A Child Called It. Mr. Pelzer's book gripped my heart and mind to a point that I never thought a book could. I immediately went on to read the rest of his ... mesmerizing trilogy, The Lost Boy and A Man Named Dave. Once his tragic, yet inspiring autobiography came to an end, questions in my mind had just ... begun. What triggers child abuse? Why do so many cases fall ...

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