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Sickened

By Julie Gregory

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| eBook | 9781409036258

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A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, and weak. It's four o'clock, and she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's aContinue

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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

Review-a-Day Saturday, October 4th, 2003 Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by A review by Georgie Lewis As a reader of memoir where does one separate the voyeur from the concerned and curious observer? Is there a separation? Wha ... (read full critics)

powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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Julie did a beautiful job of telling her heartbreaking story. While I read I felt her pain and the desperate longing she had to be loved by a mother incapable of love. As I looked through the pictures in the middle it was shocking to know what she went through. She LOOKED like a healthy beautiful gi ... (continue)

Julie did a beautiful job of telling her heartbreaking story. While I read I felt her pain and the desperate longing she had to be loved by a mother incapable of love. As I looked through the pictures in the middle it was shocking to know what she went through. She LOOKED like a healthy beautiful girl and you would never know about the constant termoil she was dealing with.This is one of the most touching true stories I have ever read. Only two others come to mind that touched me in a similar way 1) The Glass Castle : A Memior by Jeannette Walls and 2) A Child Called it by David Pelzer

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Angie said on Jan 8, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A heartbreaking, moving book about a woman who was a victim of Munchhausen's. I love how brutally truthful she was about her life. I hope writing it helped her cope.

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Heather Landry said on Nov 3, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback