![]() Some things are even still painful to talk about. “So I knew that it was going to be painful putting it down on paper. “I had to just keep remembering the only reason I wrote this book was to help other people,” she said. So clearly, committing these childhood traumas to the public record wasn’t an easy decision for Mallette. The driver skillfully swerved, but the suicide attempt landed Mallette in the psych ward of the Stratford General Hospital. According to Mallette, those responsible included a friend’s seemingly charming grandfather and an aggressive male babysitter.Īt one point long ago, she held these secrets so close that their heavy burden was in part to blame when a teenaged Mallette became so distraught that she stepped in front of an oncoming box truck. ![]() However, “under all the apparent normalcy” - as Mallette writes - she endured many years of sexual abuse from an array of perpetrators: male and female, young and old. ![]() While similarly senseless personal catastrophes seemed to crop up with unusual frequency - Mallette’s biological father left her family when she was two, then died suddenly just as he was trying to reconnect - she writes that, on the surface, she appeared to have a standard suburban upbringing. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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