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This book is an authentic description of the development of an apparently “normal” girl into a promiscuous, deceitful, alcohol- and drug-addicted adolescent.
Andrea was the oldest of three children of a professional registered nurse and an alcoholic father. She witnessed her father's violent abuse of her mother before he disappeared when she was around five. The mother, finding herself threatened by her intoxicated husband wielding a kitchen knife over her one morning, moved with her three children, aged one, three, and five, into the home of her parents. There they remained under the care of loving grandparents while the mother worked to support her family, until the mother remarried three years later. Her second husband was a writer, who had a teenage daughter from a previous marriage to an alcoholic wife.
Andrea was openly rejected by her own father, and the only strange sign her new father noticed was her turning away when an adult man tried to kiss her. At age three she was described as a very friendly, obedient, “mature for her age,” “above average intelligence” girl, who preferred to hang around adults, whom she silently observed. She had a special way of making herself useful to grownups, and she became the darling of her paternal grandfather, her kindergarten teacher, her parents' friends, and social acquaintances.
In school she was an A student, her voracious appetite for reading making her absorb books at the seventh and eighth grade level while still in the third grade. She also learned to make complicated gourmet dishes under the delighted guidance of her maternal grandmother, an excellent cook.
The question has to be raised, then, how this sweet girl, so sensitively aware of the feelings of others, turned into a slovenly, sadistic, manipulative, deceitful, sex-craving, hateful, spiteful, abusive teenager, who became delinquent from school and aligned herself with other antisocial peers of her community.
Andrea lived in a suburban New England community. Her