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Title: A Child Called "It"
Words: 470
"A Child Called It" is a book written by a man named Dave Pelzer about his childhood, recounting the excessive physical and emotional abuse he endured at the hands of his mother. He describes, in detail, the different "punishments" his mother puts him through for being a "bad boy", from forcing him to drink ammonia or lay on top of a hot stove, to being forced to throw up the food that his hunger drove him to eat from the trash can or steal from his classmates' lunchboxes at school. He also tells about the strategies he developed to try to avoid as many of the "punishments" as possible, or maybe even expose his mother's cruel behavior; however, many of the schemes he tried to execute only made his teachers, classmates, and even his own brothers and father dislike him, and made his moth ...
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