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"""A frank, intimate account of one woman's search for herself as a woman, mother and sexual being."" -Lara Lillibridge, author of Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher's Kid is the story of a childhood controlled by the brutal hand of a narcissistic, closeted homosexual. I believed I could leave my upbringing behind and walk away unscathed. I married a closeted homosexual man, in hopes he could keep me safe. As our sex life and bank account dwindled to nothing, fear kept me silent. In the meantime, my father died of AIDs. The pain of his death fractured my biological family, and I clung to my husband and children, creating a cocoon that became a prison. Eventually, I was forced to see my husband's homosexuality and refusal to work, realizations that brought me to the breaking point. I found the courage to be alone, to take care of my children no matter the cost, and the joy of my own sexual freedom. In the process, I fell in love with my own life."

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I sat down to read the first chapter on a busy day and instead read straight through. -Dr. Valerie Tarico, author of Trusting Doubt A frank, intimate account of one woman's search for herself as a woman, mother and sexual being. --Lara Lillibridge, author of Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home It has the ring of authenticity... very well written. -Ken Bangs, author of Guardians in Blue

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Ronna Russell grew up the youngest daughter of a well-known United Pentecostal preacher. From an early age, Ronna plotted to get out, hell or no hell. She jumped into marriage at the age of twenty-three, a union that lasted 22 years and produced four children. When the marriage ended, Ronna herself free to consider her own desires. With these transitions behind her and her children grown, Ronna has relocated, remarried and returned to school.

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