Barefoot Angel

Pegi Handley tells a story of outrageous parental abuse followed by a foster parent’s mental abuse and enslavement.

THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our perceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday the body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower