Review: I read it despite....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2012
....the worst spelling, grammatical errors, punctuation and sentence structure I've seen in a long time. Normally I would delete a book like this almost immediately, but I read the entire book because so much of April's life paralleled my own. (Not that I was ever sent to a "home" - but I might have been happier if I had been.) My parents were never divorced but they never showed me any affection. I also remember everything that I ever loved being taken from me - my dogs, my horse, my goat...anything and everything. I was a good student, never had to be told to study, to brush my teeth, whatever. Except for receiving criticism and control by my parents, I pretty much raised myself.Any help my parents ever gave me was conditional, as happened in April's life. I was also very promiscuous in my earlier life because I so very much needed to be held/loved, and I thought sex was the only thing I had to offer.  I graduated high school in three years so I could get married and get away from home. I, too, had a child while I was 17, still just a child myself. And although I had always sworn I'd never raise a child like my parents did, I made many of the same mistakes with my daughter. I just didn't know any better. I never had a childhood myself.But I agree that everything any of us has gone through makes us who we are today. Everything is a potential learning experience, and I know now that nothing is "good" or "bad" but simply the way we perceive the event.