Someone To Watch Over Me [Paperback]

This is the true story of an abandoned, unloved, and abused young girl. The constant cry of her heart was to be wanted and to belong. At nine years of age Shirley was taken, by her bachelor uncle to a Catholic Orphanage where brutality and neglect were rampant. With hope in her heart, at ten years of age she was sent out into the country as live-in help. The cruel old couple abused her further and she prayed fervently for escape. As chance would have it, the abuse was witnessed by an unexpected visitor to the isolated house and rescue came. Further hardships crossed her path as she was alone and without a home and Shirley demonstrated great courage, tenacity and grit. From ten years of age until sixteen, she lived in various homes as a live-in maid.Her prayers for a family were answered when she met her true love, Burton James, who became the someone to watch over her and the father of her seven children. Shirley's story demonstrates her search for God and her distorted image of Him taught to her by sadistic nuns. After years of struggle and self-loathing, faith and freedom came through forgiveness and salvation. Her multiple personality disorder, caused by her earlier cruel experiences, resulted in an integrating of her personality to the true Shirley. Her beautiful singing voice always shone in the shadows and brought distraction in her troubled life. Shirley told her story and her secrets to her daughter, the author, and gave her blessing to the writing of this book.