Reading Changed My Life - Townsend Press

Reading Changed My Life! Three True Storiesposed to be caring for her. By chance, her mothergot off work a bit early. When she arrived home, shemet a strange man and woman leaving her house.The woman had little Daisy in her arms.“What are you doing with my baby?” her motherasked. The woman looked shocked. “Yourbaby?” she said. Bit by bit, the story came out. Thecouple could not have a child of their own. Daisy’sfather had told them that his wife had died, and hehad offered to let them adopt the baby. “I neverknew what Dad had planned to tell my motherwhen she found me gone,” Daisy says, “but I’msure it wouldn’t have been the truth.”As Daisy grew older, her father’s feelings abouther did not change. To make things worse, he wasa heavy drinker, he had a bad temper, and he hadbeen abused by his own parents. Put together, thosefacts had terrible results for his daughter.Daisy’s childhood was marked by black eyes,bruised ribs, and brutal kicks from feet wearing38