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The book that started me on this path is Bitter Memories: A Memoir of Heartache & Survival. Below is the back cover copy for the paperback with Taylor Street. Although we used my real name here, in the series my name is still Sarah.
When Sue Julsen was two, her father attempted to run away with her but was stopped before he reached the city limits. A year later Sue was not so lucky. Her father had spent that intervening year biding his time, lulling the family into a false sense of security, so that when he abducted Sue again he would get clean away. And he did.
It turned out to be, for Sue, the start of a six year road trip from hell during which she was subjected to unremitting exploitation, starvation and abuse so severe that she constantly had to disassociate herself mentally from it to survive.
And beyond the overwhelming heartbreak and terror, there was a nagging question. Sue’s father would regularly hook up with waitresses in diners and they would stay a few days with them. But why then, each time, did he end up trashing the place and refusing to let Sue say goodbye to them. Were these waitresses really sleeping, as he would insist, or was something more sinister happening?
Disclaimer:
The names in this account have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty, as has the locale, but the events described in ‘Bitter Memories’ did indeed take place as best Sue Julsen can remember them as a very small child hurled into a maelstrom no child should ever have to face.
What I've Been Up To Lately
I am currently working on a "new" second in the series that will be true events, titled Drowning In Memories that continues my story after Bitter Memories, filling in a lot that was left out before. This book will be out later this year.
NOTE: Trophy Murders and Cutter's Revenge are the current books in the Bitter Memories series, written part fiction/part truth. Cutter's story turns a tragedy into the way I wanted my life to be, and is an exciting read!
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