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A Painfully Crazed Childhood

Running With Scissors is a disturbing but intriguing memoir of Augusten Burroughs’ life as a child. In his book he tells us of his childhood out of a journal that he always wrote into. This was the only real thing he was good at but never pursued it. Come to find out when things get bad you have to resort to all you have left.
When he was a child all he had was a mother with bi-polar disease, her psychiatrist and his foul mouthed, bad mannered family. He showed us how to handle the so-called worst-case scenario situations in life while he lived with the Finches,...

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