Riding In Cars With Boys

Astonished: A Story of Healing and Finding Grace

Author: Beverly Donofrio

Trouble began in 1963. I’m not blaming it on President Kennedy’s assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles. The trouble I’m talking about was my first real trouble, the age-old trouble. The getting in trouble as in Is she in trouble? trouble. As in pregnant. As in the girl who got pregnant in high school. Beverly Ann Donofrio….Read More

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