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An American father and his twelve-year-old daughter spend her spring break from middle school visiting the Netherlands. He wants to see Amsterdam anew in an attempt to soften old memories of a trip he had taken there decades earlier with a close family friend, Steve. Having been assigned Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl by her English teacher, she wants to see the Anne Frank Museum and its hidden annex where the Frank family hid out for many months during World War II trying to avoid capture by the Nazis and deportation to their death camps.

They, the loving father and the wide-eyed and trusting daughter, get much more than they bargained for. Having known evil and evil men, the father soon learns whether he measures up as a father, a lawyer, a citizen, and as a man when he faces evil anew. The daughter learns for the first time the substantial evil that lurks in the world, evil that must be reckoned with.

Although the street drama they witnessed involving a gun-toting sociopath shooting at a man lasted only a few minutes' time, a flood of emotions, memories, and unresolved issues filled the father's mind and heart. He recalled crimes against him that began over forty years earlier when he was only twelve years old and first sexually molested by a different sociopath, his parents' closest friend, Steve.

This is a true story of the author's quest to understand and place his life in a healthy and life-affirming perspective. Forty years of his personal struggle with despair and suffering separated the reckless and criminal actions of two sociopaths. Here you will learn how the author found redemption and hope by finally coming to grips with his relationship with his own father and mother and the man who molested him so many years before.

Hardcover with dust jacket $19.95
152 pages, 6 X 9
ISBN: 9781931945813

Mark Douglass is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. He graduated from Minneapolis West High School in the late 1960s. He went on to study history, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He also studied law, earning a Juris Doctorate degree from Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, MN.

He passed the Minnesota State Bar examination in 1980 and practiced law in Minnesota for over a quarter of a century. He now speaks professionally before law enforcement, medical and psychological associations, colleges and universities, rape and sexual abuse survivors' groups, churches, and other organizations about male sexual abuse, sexual predators, his own experience as a childhood victim of sexual predation, and his journey of survival and recovery.

In the early 1980s, he was one of the first male survivors of childhood sexual abuse in Minnesota, and the nation, to sue for his injuries. In 1988, a civil jury awarded him a verdict of over $1,000,000,000 against the close family friend who molested him.

In the wake of that verdict, he appeared on local and national television shows advocating on behalf of male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. He also testified before the Minnesota State Legislature, lobbying for changes in Minnesota law regarding child abuse cases.

He lives in Minneapolis, MN, with his wife, Ann, and their two children.

Author Web Site: www.flashbacksofabuse.com

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