Out of Fire and Into Light: A Life Born in Flame

Born in 1980 into poverty in the Northwoods of Minnesota, where even our linens smelled like poor people. A drunk teenage mother set her sleeping baby on fire. The resulting wounds ran like ink on wet paper; they stained everything they touched and destroyed normal boundaries. Joni DeSchane's life was altered forever. She was adopted a year later by a nice elderly woman who thought the idea of corporal punishment was the stress reliever she'd been searching for. Follow along as I unfold wit...