Mary E. Seaman (her maiden name) grew up in small towns less than a hundred miles north of New York City. After her parents divorced, her mother returned, kidnapped her, hid her down South. A year later, her father kidnapped her back. After a brief period of a pleasantly resumed childhood, Mary was abused repeatedly by her father’s second wife and, to a lesser extent, by her father himself. This memoir describes the challenges she has faced, some of which she has overcome, and her responses to them. Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D., is a retired scientist, author of Ting and I, co-author of The Shield of Gold, editor of High Shoes and Bloomers and of But...at What Cost?
Kidnapped Twice
Then Betrayed and Abused
by Mary E. Seaman and Douglas Winslow Cooper
Kidnapped Twice
Then Betrayed and Abused
by Mary E. Seaman and Douglas Winslow Cooper
Published Oct 30, 2014
157 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Book Details
A MOVING AND MEMORABLE MEMOIR
“The Lovely Shall be Choosers” is the title of a Robert Frost poem that tells of the unhappy life of a woman born beautiful. Kidnapped Twice is a somewhat similar story, a memoir of a woman born both well-off and pretty, whose traumatic early life so shaped what came afterward that only her exceptional strength of character saved her. Now nearly bankrupt, living on a farm under challenging conditions, she nonetheless perseveres, doing what needs to be done, enjoying her cats and her wildlife, keeping afloat so far. If “the unexamined life is not worth living,” then examining where one has been and what one has done can add value even to very disappointing previous years. Such insight gives hope that one’s future can be better than one’s past. Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is hope, there is life. This memoir is dedicated to those who deeply care about the treatment of the least powerful among us: our children, our pets, and our wildlife.
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