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Book Review of Sickened : The True Story of a Lost Childhood

Sickened : The True Story of a Lost Childhood
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From Early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually x-rayed, medicated and operated on in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by proxy is the world's most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse - but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit ofher mother's madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman.