"Sexually abused as a child. Rejection each time I was moved from foster home to foster home. Eventually meeting my own parents at 11 years old and living with them only to witness the most awful violence as I watched my father beat my mother week after week... Marriage in order to escape the nightmare I was living in, to becoming the wife who was beaten. Miscarriages and a stillbirth, followed by a hysterectomy. Numerous operations followed by a...