Shelley Cowell

Familiar Stranger's . . . a Mother's Story Shelley Cowell

Life is never easy especially for a little girl with the misfortune of being raised by a mother who is hateful and heavy handed. A mother that could only hate and resent all that she should be loving and caring for. Suzanne spent her childhood trying to avoid the regular abuse of her hateful mother and her adulthood trying to get over her childhood. Never able to understand the secrets that forced her mother to hate her. The secrets that would haunt her until it was too late to do anything to undo the scars that she would carry with her forever. Her biggest mistake was inflicting the same pain on her own daughter. A daughter that was both helpless and too strong. A daughter who would have the same scars for the same reasons. This is the story of a plague of disfunction and abuse that is passed from one generation to the next and the fight of each generation determined to stop the line that seems to haunt them. Mother's and daughter's struggling to be loved and to understand why they are not eventually attempt to find some way to get past it all and become the family they should be. Will they ever learn to like and love as families should? Will they ever feel love or know they deserve to be loved? Most of all will they ever learn to trust in that love?