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Summary

In these chapters of the story, the author still talks about more events that happened in her life where she was devastated and unhappy.  She continues to talk about the cruelty of her mother and how she never felt loved by her. One flashback that really caught my attention was when Patti Davis has a flash back of when she had created her first story; she was 10 years old then.  She was so excited to have written her first story about her life, even though it was very sad and depressing.  Once her mother found her short story, she instantly became upset.  She was infuriated at her daughter for making such a depressing book of “lies” as so she thought.  This amount of anger caused her to rip up her daughter’s story.  Patti, of course, felt very hurt that her mom had destroyed the one thing that she loved.  This did not stop Patti from writing however. She kept writing stories after stories, noticing that she felt better after each story that she had written (sort of like a diary).  Sadly, her mom found her stash of stories that she had written and ripped them, and threw them away.  Patti always attempted to look for the ripped pages of her story. After looking in the garbage for weeks, she never found the stories that she spent so much time writing.  This was another factor that caused Patti to detest her mother.

Quote

“There were words, though, that I would never be able to remember. They had healed me somehow, but their magic has been stolen.”

Reaction

This is another quote by Patti Davis that I loved because she explains how sad she felt about her books being torn through this small line.  When someone writes a story, it is like their own personal baby that they have created and learned to love. So I felt extremely bad when her mother did not appreciate what she had written, or at least tried to make her daughter’s life a little more easier after seeing those depressing stories.