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    Finding Gloria
    Finding Gloria
    Finding Gloria
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    Finding Gloria

    By Marianne Curtis

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    A Memoir of Loss, Struggle, and Unbreakable Hope

    Author Marianne Curtis reveals her own personal, heart-wrenching, and, ultimately, inspiring story in Finding Gloria. Her past is laid bare in achingly honest detail, and her willingness to share her story with resonate with readers everywhere.

    Pouring her own hardships out onto the page, Marianne Curtis recounts her experiences growing up as an adopted child: adopted at birth, she was raised in a household where she was subjected to terrible and heart breaking forms of abuse. Her adoptive mother repeatedly tried to break her spirit, insisting that she was worthless and unwanted. In a desperate attempt to escape her circumstance, Curtis fled, as a teenager, to another city.

    Desperate for acceptance and love, she married at age eighteen, and, by twenty-four, had four children. Her insecurities from her traumatic childhood followed her, however, and eventually led to the dissolution of three marriages and her own mental breakdown.

    Finally, after the death of her adoptive mother, Curtis searched out her birth family, found them through Facebook, and eventually came to a place of love, healing, peace, and acceptance through the family she had not known for more than four decades.

    An inspiring story about rising from the ashes of our pasts, Marianne Curtis’ memoir is written in a pure, vivid voice, and draws readers in with her will to survive despite the seemingly insurmountable struggles that she faced. Finding Gloria is one woman’s incredible story of love, loss, redemption, and forgiveness, even in the face of devastating events. A beautiful and moving tale, Curtis’ raw emotion and fragile hope is revealed through her candid prose and unbreakable spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarianne Curtis
    Release dateMay 20, 2012
    ISBN9781476317915
    Finding Gloria
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    Marianne Curtis

    Since the fall of 1997, Marianne Curtis has been writing for the Dawson Trail Dispatch. She has since published over 7,000 articles in the monthly publication.While she prefers investigative pieces, Ms. Curtis does not limit her expertise. Over the years she has covered hardcore news, political issues, public interest groups, community events, sports and entertainment. She also does her own photography.When Ms. Curtis is not writing for the newspaper, she enjoys spending time with her family, gardening and with her many friends.

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      This book is for people with a heart because you should be able to feel Marianne’s problems and struggles right along with her. The way the book is written is great to. You can always feel emotion at any point in the book. You know when something bad is about to happen. You know when you’re about to be hit with something really hard. The book makes you want to be a character so you can tell that person not to do whatever they’re about to do. The content and plot of the book was great. They worked together great. The plot gave a lot of information on Marianne’s problems.Very inspirational story! She finally finds understanding, love, peace and acceptance she missed during the first four decades of her life.

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