The Little Girl from Merrywood: A Memoir of Abuse, Survival and Healing
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The Little Girl from Merrywood: A Memoir of Abuse, Survival and Healing
Sale price
$21.99
Regular price $26.99
The Little Girl from Merrywood is a deeply personal memoir about abandonment, institutional childhood, abuse, survival, and the lifelong journey toward healing long before trauma-informed care existed.
After her mother left when she was just a child, the author and her siblings were separated and placed into the system, including Merrywood, a facility connected to the Summit County Children’s Home in Ohio.
Behind unfamiliar walls and within a system that often overlooked vulnerable children, the author struggled with loneliness, fear, displacement, and the painful feeling of being forgotten. While Merrywood became part of her story of institutional childhood, the abuse she endured occurred outside those walls — carried out by people who should have protected her.
Through heartbreaking honesty, the author recounts the emotional scars left by childhood trauma, the lasting impact it had on her siblings and family, and the strength it took to survive. The Little Girl from Merrywood is not only a story of suffering, but also one of resilience, courage, and reclaiming a voice that was once silenced.
As she searched for traces of Merrywood and the lives lived within its walls, she began confronting the unsettling feeling that parts of her childhood had been erased from history itself.
This memoir stands as a testimony for the children whose stories were never documented, whose pain went unseen, and whose lives were too often forgotten.
After her mother left when she was just a child, the author and her siblings were separated and placed into the system, including Merrywood, a facility connected to the Summit County Children’s Home in Ohio.
Behind unfamiliar walls and within a system that often overlooked vulnerable children, the author struggled with loneliness, fear, displacement, and the painful feeling of being forgotten. While Merrywood became part of her story of institutional childhood, the abuse she endured occurred outside those walls — carried out by people who should have protected her.
Through heartbreaking honesty, the author recounts the emotional scars left by childhood trauma, the lasting impact it had on her siblings and family, and the strength it took to survive. The Little Girl from Merrywood is not only a story of suffering, but also one of resilience, courage, and reclaiming a voice that was once silenced.
As she searched for traces of Merrywood and the lives lived within its walls, she began confronting the unsettling feeling that parts of her childhood had been erased from history itself.
This memoir stands as a testimony for the children whose stories were never documented, whose pain went unseen, and whose lives were too often forgotten.