Little Girl Mended

No little girl should ever have to learn about sexual abuse at the hands of her father. But I did, and I survived. This is my story.

Little Girl Mended is both a story of abuse and a story of redemption, spanning more than fifty years. From the loss of innocence at age seven, through ten-plus years of abuse, forty-five years of silence, and finally--well into my fifties--coming to understand that healing is possible. My walk through recovery coincided with a deepening of my relationship with...