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Richard B. Pelzer, author of the childhood memoir "A Brother's Journey," continues his personal story, chronicling his teenage years and young adulthood during which he suffered his mother's emotional abuse and struggled to come to terms with her physical abuse of him and of his brother David when they were small.

The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life.

Richard is David Pelzer's brother. While Dave was removed from his mother's home by the time he was twelve years old, his brother Richard was not. He became the new scapegoat for his mother's alcohol-fueled wrath. How he survived years of his mother's abuse is the subject of this book.

The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.

David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.

The author describes his childhood filled with nightly beatings and unspeakable abuse by his mother and how he found the courage to survive.