A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games ? games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an ?it?. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food...
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