The Staying Power of the Mother-Daughter Story, featuring Laura Davis
Memoir Nation
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The Courage to Heal
"I kept feeling like i had to confess what i was doing the whole time," she says. "It doesn't matter any more that i'm telling a story that's true, and they're in denial about what happened to me." One cousin wrote an angry letter; another said her mother and father were characters in the book. A third person said, you know, god, laura, are you ever going to be done writing about this topic?"
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