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A Child Called It
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Dave Pelzer
This book is an autobiography about Dave Pelzer. Dave has lived an extraordinary life. His mother’s immoral and dreadful way of treating him, made his abuse case one of the most severe in the history of child abuse cases in California. From age 5 to 12 he literally lived in a nightmare. His mom beat him repeatedly, attempted to burn him on the gas stove; and had it not been for his quick wittedness, and his stalling for time he wouldn’t have escaped the heat of the stove, refused to give him new clothes; saying he was unworthy of them, stabbed him in the chest; for not finishing his chores on time because he had not eaten for two and a half weeks, made him live on a cot in the garage; because in her eyes, he wasn’t as spe
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