Pretend You Dont See The Elephant is a personal memoir about the
authors life growing up in the 1950s. Throughout the narrative, the
elephant represents the silence surrounding familial dysfunctional
behavior. Christian Science provided the background of denial in a
home where physical, emotional, and verbal abuse ran rampant. The
severity of the abuse and the denial of it destroyed the authors
desire to live and at the age of twelve, she tried to commit
suicide. Failing to die, she was exiled to an alcoholic uncles
home, barely escaping sexual molestation before being returned home
to her parents. The Christian Science religion of her mother was
responsible for the refusal of medical attention, leaving her to
die after a ruptured appendix. The author was told every day of her
life that she was a failure as a Christian Scientist and her
illnesses were her fault. From her father she was told she was so
clumsy and ugly that no one would ever marry her. Dont talk, dont
tell was a way of life, and she spent a lifetime living under this
code of silence. emotion abuse would ride on her shirt tail for the
rest of her life. This then is the story of a victim who became
victorious. The memoir continues on as she faces a tragic
automobile accident. Accepting medical assistance removed her from
the Christian Science Church at a time when she needed her faith
the most. The success of her story is celebrated when she comes to
terms with who God is in her life. It is with peace of mind that
she now shares her story, lifting the veil of silence from the
little girl, to tell the story that she was told never to tell.
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