Pegi Handley tells a story of outrageous parental abuse followed by a foster parent's mental abuse and enslavement. Pegi Handley still lives not far from where this story takes place. She is busy writing other books. Pegi lives with her husband Jim, who is retired from public schools and together they raise and breed Yorkshire Terriers, plus they have a managery of animals including an African gray, named Max. Right at this time his favorite sayings is, "I don't drink...I quit." He's heard me say those words so many times...