Lost Boy (A Super Bestseller That Dominated the New York Times Best Seller List for 172 Weeks!)

Author: Dave Pelzer
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: On the winter of 1970, in Darlington City, California—I was alone. In the darkness, I was both hungry and cold. At the bottom of the stairs leading to the garage, I sat on my own hands; my head tilted backward, my hands having lost sensation hours ago, and the muscles in my neck and shoulders began to tremble. Yet, this was nothing new—I had long learned to forget the pain. I was my mother's prisoner. I was nine years old, and I had lived like this for several years. Every day. In the morning, I would climb out of that old, wheeled army cot and start doing household chores. If I was lucky, I would get a little leftover oatmeal from my brothers for breakfast. Then, I would run to school, sneak a snack, and return to "that house." Once at "that house," I would force myself to vomit in the bathroom to prove that I hadn’t committed the crime of stealing food.