Download or read book Innocence Unraveled written by Debbie Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There I go again, another piece of me chipped away. Another piece unraveled. And unlike one of my knitted pieces, this mistake would remain.Raised in a Jewish household in Connecticut, Debbie left her childhood in the groovy '60s and entered her teenage years during the disco era. Finding any excuse to escape her neglectful, abusive mother, she turned to attentive boys for attention.Then she met Ivan, her first true love. Life was looking up.Until the pregnancy test came back positive, and a botched abortion and rape left Debbie feeling undone. Only fifteen and she had hit rock bottom. Debbie's life was unraveling before her eyes. Was it too late to stitch up her mistakes? Could she hide these secrets from her mother?Darkly comedic and downright harrowing Innocence Unraveled is a revealing memoir about a young woman whose resilience led to her survival in an unkind world.