A Good Little Girl
Story of Survival
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“Down I went, cheek first, slamming onto the tile floor. I hit so hard, I completely blacked out. The next thing I knew, I was being dragged from the foyer to the bedroom, and lifted up to the bed. I was like a rag doll. I was still foggy, still trying to regain consciousness. I could hear him pleading for me to come back, he was sorry, and then, and then he proceeded to attack me sexually. I managed to say “NO!” But, my protest was ignored and he brutalized me again. When he finished, he left me there, alone to recover as best I could.”
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In A Good Little Girl, Kenzie O’Hara shares the powerful lessons she learned from growing up with distant, unloving parents who finally divorce. She becomes an introverted, obliging person who doubts her own worth, always seeking to please others, and ends up a target for a violent, explosive husband who abuses her for two decades.
While A Good Little Girl is the story of Kenzie’s personal journey, many women will relate to her situation. Abandonment, anorexia, physical, sexual,mental, and emotional abuse, bad decisions, you name it: this woman has experienced it all. Feeling defeated, deflated, frightened, and alone became her “normal.” Yet the “good little girl” possesses strengths that manage to carry her through all kinds of adversity.
Kenzie’s story originated as an autobiographical piece for her children, written in hopes that it would provide them with a history and a better understanding of the person she was in her youth, and the person she became. After it was written, she realized that others could benefit from reading about how an abandoned little girl and abused woman managed to wrangle herself from the depths of overwhelming torments and odds.
About the Author
Kenzie O’Hara is multi-media artist, golfer, horsewoman, survivor of cancer and bad decisions, and every kind of abuse. She is a mother of two and grandmother of six. She currently resides in South Carolina with a fellow she has known since kindergarten, which represents sixty-four years out of her sixty-nine on this good earth.