title: Surviving Abuse: Four True Stories (Townsend Library)
author:  Beth Johnson 
description: <i>Abuse</i> is an ugly word. And to many people, abuse is an ugly reality of life. This book tells the stories of two men and two women whose lives have been painfully marked by abuse. <br /><br />As a child, Kenyon was beaten first by his mother, later by his father and stepmother.
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  > Copyright © 2019 by Courtney P. Hunter
  
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  > any other means without permission. This novel is entirely a work of
  > fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of
  > the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
  > events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  > ** CONTENT WARNING ** : Sentience contains discussion of sexual assault,
  > addiction and drug abuse, discussion of self-harm and suicide, and graphic
  > violence.
  
  > FIRST EDITION
  
  > This book is dedicated to the friends that sat with me in Salem,
  > Massachussets when I spoke it into existence for the very first time.
  
  > It is for 