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Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir
Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir
Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir
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A horrifying childhood. A devastating disease. In his darkest despair, he finally found hope…

Lewis Kempfer nearly destroyed himself searching for something that would make him happy. His battle with self-hatred began with physical and psychological abuse from the trusted male adults in his life and continued into adulthood when the church rejected him for being gay. Traumatized and suicidal, his only salvation came from getting himself on stage.

Moving from city to city in search of fame and love, he lands in the dog-eat-dog-world of Hollywood showbiz. But a terrifying diagnosis casts a dark shadow on a promising Tinseltown career, and he falls into a downward spiral of dangerous liaisons and hardcore drug addiction. It will take a near-death overdose in his blackest hour to find strength from the last place he ever expected...

"Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Having a Bad Life" is a raw, rapid-fire account of one man's frightening journey to self-acceptance. From dicey sex clubs to crystal meth motels, Lewis holds nothing back in this bittersweet tell-all. His emotional tale of love, loss, and redemption will move anyone who's ever felt alienated or outcast. It is a shockingly candid true-life story. If you like authentic narratives, stories of triumph, and surmounting the challenges of being LGBTQ, then you'll be enthralled by Lewis Kempfer's riveting memoir.

Winner of the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Awards for the Category LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction, recipient of a 2021 Gold Medal from Literary Titan; 2020 and 2021 Winner of the Silver Medal for respectively, Autobiography and LGBT, from the Reader's Favorite International Book Awards; Finalist in the 2021 Page Turner Book Awards, and an Honorable Mention for Memoir in the 2019 Writers Digest Self-Published eBook competition.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBookBaby
Release dateSep 9, 2019
ISBN9781543970760
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