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David grew up in Daly City, California with his mother and father, and three younger brothers. During the first years of David’s life, their family had appeared almost perfect, but soon this would all change. Around the age of six, his mother started to go through some changes. She no longer liked to go on the trips that their family went on regularly, she no longer dressed up, did her hair, nor her makeup. She often times would pass out on the couch in front of the television after drinking an excessive amount of alcohol. David’s mother had soon become an alcoholic who had taken a turn for the worst.

David’s life drastically changed, as his mother

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He always thought in the morning, “Will today be the day she will finish me off?” In a way, he wished for death. For his mother no longer considered him her son, but her slave, and no longer a boy, but an “it”.

There was a few times when onlookers would catch on to the kind of lifestyle David was living. He would often times be sent out to sit in the freezing cold garage, on his hands, with his head down, while the rest of his family ate a home cooked meal around the kitchen table. He would cough up blood and nearly pass out; he often wished that he would just die. She took a diaper that David’s younger brother had recently soiled, and tried to force him to eat from it. Another instance of abuse he encountered was at their cabin. Fortunately for him, his family soon returned, and therefore, this abuse didn’t last long. Someone finally stepped in and saved him from all of the torture he was living through. He wished his mother would just do it and get it over with. During David’s life, he was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. For some unknown reason, he was the only of the four children to be affected by these changes. Somehow, his mother always found out about his schemes.

David’s mother continued to get worse. David’s case was and incredibly severe case of child abuse and it is very important that he gets his story out and reach as many as possible.

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Approximate Word count = 1111
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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