Baby Beth Finds Hope

Her mother named her Elizabeth, but she was usually called Betty. Since she was the youngest of her mother's four children, her maternal relatives referred to her as Baby Beth. This was a moniker that she disdained but tolerated most of her young life.

Unwanted before even being born, Betty goes through life feeling rejected by just about everybody in her family. Living in poverty, nobody at school wanted to befriend her either, so she walked aimlessly through her boring existence. When she ...