Charming Alarming Disarming Author:Ann Lee Piper Banion spent most of her eighteen years trying to gain her abusive mother's love. But the older she gets, the more she realizes that a parent's undying love is something you don't have to vie forcompromise your principles for, nor beg for in your prayers. Connie will always see her as a worthless burden.....Still, it was hard making that ... more »life-altering decision that freed Piper from the chains of her defective childhood......« less