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Augusta, Gone: A True Story
by Martha Tod Dudman

Published: 2002-04-01
Paperback : 256 pages
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The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her.

True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a ride. But you think, well, that's ...

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The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her.

True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a ride. But you think, well, that's how they are, aren't they, teenagers? And you try to remember how you were, but you were different and the times were different and it was so long ago. And she's suddenly so angry at you, but then, another time, she's just the same. She's just your little girl. You sit with her and you talk about something, or you go shopping for school clothes and everything seems all right. And you forget how you stood in her room and how the center of your stomach felt so cold. When you found the cigarette. When you found the blue pipe. When you found the little bag she said was aspirin.

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  "Interesting"by April V. (see profile) 01/07/07

I thought this book was intersting. It was great to hear the perspective of a mother who went through so much with her daughter. I personally could not relate to much of the story because I do not have... (read more)

 
  "Moving account of a child gone wrong with drugs."by Patty S. (see profile) 01/04/07

I found this book to be disturbing and truthfull regarding the loss of control with your daughter. Daughter was heavily involved in drugs, eating disorders and general mayhem and what the mother (and... (read more)

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