Augusta, Gone: A True Story

by Martha Tod Dudman

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As a single parent Martha was sure she was giving her two children the perfect life. When daughter Augusta turned 15 things started to happen; first the cigarette, then the blue pipe and the little bag Augusta says are aspirin. Martha can't seem to get through to Augusta, and Augusta it appears is intent of doing everything to hurt herself. Martha doesn't know if she's confronting teenage adolescence, craziness, her own failure as a parent, or all three.… (more)

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This book was a Mom's perspective on her adolescent daughter becoming a troubled teen, doing drugs, drinking, stealing, being promiscuous, etc, and how she had to deal with it and how it effected her family.
Truthfully, it is a sad story, but a little whiny and annoying and can make you want to put it down at times.

I suggest this book to anyone who is going through the same thing, because I bet there would be a lot of things that you could relate to. It makes more sense to those as well, and also I bet anyone who had the same situation who read this book would enjoy it more. (

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As a single parent Martha was sure she was giving her two children the perfect life. When daughter Augusta turned 15 things started to happen; first the cigarette, then the blue pipe and the little bag Augusta says are aspirin. Martha can't seem to get through to Augusta, and Augusta it appears is intent of doing everything to hurt herself. Martha doesn't know if she's confronting teenage adolescence, craziness, her own failure as a parent, or all three.

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The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to save her.

True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a ride. But you think, well, that's how they are, aren't they, teenagers? And you try to remember how you were, but you were different and the times were different and it was so long ago. And she's suddenly so angry at you, but then, another time, she's just the same. She's just your little girl. You sit with her and you talk about something, or you go shopping for school clothes and everything seems all right. And you forget how you stood in her room and how the center of your stomach felt so cold. When you found the cigarette. When you found the blue pipe. When you found the little bag she said was aspirin.

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