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Aileen Wournos lived - and died - pretty much the same way; alone. To characterize Aileen Wuornos' start in life as a poor beginning is truly an understatement. It was an awful beginning from the time she was born February 29, 1956 as Aileen Carol Pittman. One of the few good things in her young life, ironically, was that her biological father, Leo Dale Pittman, never got to know her. Pittman was a psychopathic child molester who hanged himself in prison in 1969. Her mother, Diane Wuornos, married Pittman when she was 15 and bore him two children in Rochester, Michigan . Aileen's older brother, Keith, was born in 1955. Diane divorced Pittman less than two years into the marriage, a few months before Aileen was born. Diane was afraid of Pittman and with good reason. Diane found the responsibilities of single motherhood unbearable and in 1960 she abandoned Aileen and her brother Keith, who were then adopted by their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos in 1960. That's when the real physical and psychological torture began. It's My Turn is an unflinching glimpse into the life and mind of a woman born at the bottom of the gene pool and never given a chance to have what she had always dreamed of: true love and understanding. Culled from eye witness accounts, real life interviews, and testimony from Aileen's childhood friend, Dawn Botkins, and Aileen's adoptive mother, Arlene Pralle, It's My Turn provides a look into the heart and soul of a woman never given a chance - and then executed by the same society that had denied her that chance when she needed it the most.

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