“I didn’t care that he was broken. Everyone I love is. Or was. That’s how we recognize each other.”
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Thank you @celadonbooks for this Memoir. This is the first memoir I have ever read. I simultaneously listened to it on @libro.fm as well, and after hearing Mikel’s voice, how at times I felt like a small boy was reading this story of his broken life to me, I just felt his story deep in my soul.
He seemed to go through, but get through any and every possible awful thing thrown at person, starting as a small child. Getting ripped away from his parents in a cult, to be raised by random people, and watch other children be beaten and have their heads shaved to instill fear. To finally escape, with his real mother, to realize she suffered from tremendous mental health disease and could not quite be a mother. To have to be on the run, out of fear of being found with no resources, living in poverty, and later losing friends to drugs, and almost losing his brother to drugs as well.
But he is here today, he has grown from all of this pain and torment, and he is living a better life than he was every given previously. This was written so well. It was so dark at times, but Mikel seemed to always find his way. #memoir #bookstagram #hollywoodpark #celadonbooks
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Thank you @celadonbooks for this Memoir. This is the first memoir I have ever read. I simultaneously listened to it on @libro.fm as well, and after hearing Mikel’s voice, how at times I felt like a small boy was reading this story of his broken life to me, I just felt his story deep in my soul.
He seemed to go through, but get through any and every possible awful thing thrown at person, starting as a small child. Getting ripped away from his parents in a cult, to be raised by random people, and watch other children be beaten and have their heads shaved to instill fear. To finally escape, with his real mother, to realize she suffered from tremendous mental health disease and could not quite be a mother. To have to be on the run, out of fear of being found with no resources, living in poverty, and later losing friends to drugs, and almost losing his brother to drugs as well.
But he is here today, he has grown from all of this pain and torment, and he is living a better life than he was every given previously. This was written so well. It was so dark at times, but Mikel seemed to always find his way. #memoir #bookstagram #hollywoodpark #celadonbooks