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Fat, Stupid, Ugly: One Woman's Courage to Survive

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HCI, 2004 - Self-Help - 218 pages

In the spirit of A Child Called "It" comes an amazing story of resilience from a woman who triumphed over child abuse, cancer, and alcoholism to founder of A Place Called Home.

"I began life, it would seem, as some kind of Grimm's fairy tale creature, large and oafish, undesirable, grossly imperfect. Neatly penned in my baby book were the words, 'Debbie was a fat, unattractive baby.' Fat and ugly aside, my life was fairly normal for a couple of years. It would be a while before the abuse began. Before the smoking and pills, the rage and rebellion, the alcoholism and cancer, the broken marriages.

In those first uncomplicated years I could have set out on any of a dozen different paths toward an orderly life . . . it was not to be. . . . But this is not a story of defeat."

This is a book about surviving. It's about hope. It's about how each of us-ordinary, imperfect, damaged-can dream and heal. This book weaves the humorous, often outrageous, always courageous tapestry of Debrah Constance's life. Voted Woman of the Year by the State of California Legislature for founding A Place Called Home, (APCH) an organization providing services to at-risk inner-city kids in South Los Angeles, she proves that anyone can rise above life's obstacles and make a better life for themselves-and others.

  

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Selected pages

Contents

Beginning
1
Arnold
5
Happy as a Fiddle
11
Where Theres Smoke
17
School Dazr
19
Work Part One
27
Husband Number One
31
California
37
Finding A Place Called Home
109
South Central
119
Bad Love
123
A Place Called Home
131
A Gang On My Own
147
Diana
157
Crash
161
Smart as a Bell
171

Husband Number Two
47
The Wild Years
59
Cancer
63
Husband Number Three
69
Work Part Two
75
Drunk
83
Real Life
91
Ugly
99
Work Part Three
101
Gideon
181
God
185
Cat Tilt Dog Tilt
189
Finding Frida
193
Fat
195
Wife
201
Sacred Music
211
Awards Earned by Debrah Constance and A Place Called Home
215
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About the author (2004)

Debrah Constance founded A Place Called Home in 1993. APCH now offers its youth members many programs including an all-day school in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District; computer lab; music; art; dance; tutoring and mentoring. In September of 1996, with a growth in membership to 400, APCH moved to its present location-a 10,000-square-foot facility that serves over 4,000 children.

J.I. Kleinberg is a freelance writer whose clients include individuals and corporations in the travel, healthcare, and design/print industries as well as a wide range of other businesses.

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TitleFat, Stupid, Ugly: One Woman's Courage to Survive
AuthorDebrah Constance
ContributorsJ.I. Kleinberg, Penny L. Marshall
PublisherHCI, 2004
ISBN0757302254, 9780757302251
Length218 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational
Self-Help / Personal Growth / General
Self-Help / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem
Social Science / Philanthropy & Charity
  
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