New York Book Festival awarded an 'Honorable Mention' for this Autobiography. PARIS and beyond is the setting of this Story of Recovery: {Written in Rhyme} A tale shared of hope and aspirations, as childhood abuse was to be fled from, and that babbling brook of domestic violence was escaped from, where a world of recovery opened up, as a pinprick of light was punctured into that bleak and harmful place, of hurt and pain, where daily survival was a struggle, but better days were coming, as inner-progress was made and an escape away from those circumstances became possible, and so onto freedom and thriving, for a better and improved life had begun, and quite miraculously for the rest of her days, her inner and personal war, was OVERCOME and WON!