Dave Pelzer is on a mission to change your attitude. Most people will remember him as the author of the compelling memoir, A Child Called "It", about his harrowing childhood and out-of-control mother who never quite got around to calling him by name.
Just to put it into perspective, the story, "Running with Scissors," had the good mother.
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