![]() ![]() But my mother says it's okay to look this way-it's important to attract boys, just don't allow them to touch you. The cut was lower than the cut on other girls' dresses. My mother helped me select the ruby-red dress I wore to the Paradise of Hearts dance. Once I wore a tight knit sweater to school and I thought I noticed a surprised hesitation to Christopher's "hello." At the time I thought little of it, but now I'm unsure. But my mother won't give me money to buy pajamas she says what I sleep in-that nightgown-is what I will bring.she will not waste money on.on what? Suddenly I am not sure about any of my clothes. ![]() I take this literally-that I must bring pajamas. In tenth grade Elizabeth invites me to her pajama party. What follows are pages 131 to 135 of Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You. They were, like the pajama party I attended, exotic in their ordinariness-because they were part of a life I didn't have. In this brief excerpt, a pair of flannel pajamas took on mythic proportions for me. (EXPLANATION: One result of being sexually molested is that, as a young girl, everyday objects or actions took on an importance beyond their everydayness. If you wish to read a description of this book, please click on "Sue's Books," above. The following is a short excerpt from Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (University of Georgia Press), a memoir by Sue William Silverman. This book is the cry that shatters that curse." ~~Adam Hochschild "Searing, brave, powerfully written.Silverman's memoir is about more than incest: it is about evil, about denial, about the great chasm between the public facade of a prominent, successful family and its painful reality, and it is about how, as in a Greek tragedy, a curse has been passed down through several generations. "This harrowing memoir gives voice to the inarticulate terror Silverman suffered as a child, when she could never find the right words to describe her situation. A remarkable achievement from a remarkable woman." ~~Andrew Vachss "Living, empowering proof that an orchid can bloom right up through concrete. "Beautiful, rocketing prose." ~~ The Tallahassee Democrat I know it is going to be passed urgently from hand to hand." ~~Rosellen Brown "Profoundly moving in its portrait of a child's fear, confusion, and desperate search for a safe place." ~~ Kirkus "A rough emotional ride, but it is well worth it." ~~ Ms. "Silverman's lyric style transforms a ravaged childhood into a work of art. ![]()
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