Runaway
Life on the Streets: The Lessons Learned
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About the Book
REVIEW BY: Jennifer Oliver
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It is my intention, through my book, to try to relate to teenagers the pain, suffering, and sadness a runaway child feels after reaching adulthood. The teenager who takes to the streets, and experiences what I describe in my book, both the good and the bad, will forever remain sad, lonely and in a state of total distrust of family, friends and spouse.
As an abused teen, living in a
I made a choice when I was a young teen. I thought I was choosing the lesser of two evils. Life on the streets had to be better than the life of hell that I was living at home. Boy was I wrong in that decision. The horrific experiences that I suffered at the hands of those I met out on the street caused five failed marriages in my life. Because of those experiences, I also remained almost totally friendless for years, mainly because of my distrust of all human beings.
However, most runaway teens will succeed in life, but only because they rule and structure their lives with their thought processes rather than with their emotional processes. A wonderful human emotional process lost and destroyed forever, by life on the streets. What a terrible way to have to live for the remainder of your life.
About the Author
By the age of four, Roger Dean Kiser had been abandoned, first by his parents and then his grandparents and placed in a
Now an adult, Roger Dean Kiser writes about his childhood along with his current day tales. A real-life Tom Sawyer, Roger's stories find a common ground in each of us.
Roger's powerful stories have been published all around the world, including many stories in the Chicken Soup for the Soul Book series.
REVIEW BY: Jennifer Oliver
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