I Was Only Nineteen

I Was Only Nineteen
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Publisher : Balboa Press
Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 9781452527642
ISBN-13 : 1452527644
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Book Synopsis I Was Only Nineteen by : Raewyn Harlum

Download or read book I Was Only Nineteen written by Raewyn Harlum and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a different world in 1966. Considered a social and moral outrage to have a baby out of wedlock, babies were taken from single mothers because they didnt have husbands. In I Was Only Nineteen, author Raewyn Harlum tells how she relinquished a baby to whom she had just given birth. At the time, nineteen-year-old Raewyn was homeless and sleeping on the floor of people shed known four days. Destitute, her possessions filled one suitcase. She had no family or friends in Australia and her partner already had a wife. When she went into labor, her partner left her at the hospital telling her she couldnt keep the baby. If she did, hed disappear with their two-year-old son. In this heartbreaking memoir, she shares her story that includes the reunion of the birth parents with the baby after shed grown into a beautiful young woman. It was not a love-conquers-all meeting; the young woman doesnt understand why her birth parents gave her up and then had more children.


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