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Murdered or

Brigitte Biermann Murdered or The Terror in My Marriage Andrea`s marriage is a disaster. Humiliation and violence are the order of the day. Her attempts to flee from her husband fail. He finds her everywhere, and she falls for his promises that he will change for the better. As the situation...

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I Will Just Keep Texting

Susanne Preusker I Will Just Keep Texting Text messages of saying goodbye Gabi and Tine are best friends. When Tine is diagnosed with cancer and later moves into a hospice, they text each other heart wrenching, encouraging and sad messages. The fragmentary style of this exceptional correspondence...

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Days Full of Life

Maria Hagenschneider Days Full of Life Our shared time in hospice What happens when someone moves into a hospice in order to die there? Maria Hagenschneider relates what happened when she moved into a hospice center with her mortally ill husband and lived there for a surprisingly long ten weeks,...

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The Fight Goes On – So Women Can Live in Dignity

Lea Ackermann The Fight Goes On – So Women Can Live in Dignity How Something New Began with the Death of My Son »If Sister Lea Ackermann hadn’t ended up with the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, she could have become a revolutionary or head of state. Her combination of a powerful sense of...

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I, Birgit, Autist and Psychotherapist

Birgit Saalfrank I, Birgit, Autist and Psychotherapist Birgit Saalfrank is a psychotherapist. For years, she lived in various roles: competitive athlete, loving partner in a relationship, successful director of a psychosocial centre – until everything became too much for her. She became severely...

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Lean Years

Nicole Knörr Lean Years How I overcame my eating disorder When Nicole Knörr was 13 years old she started eating less and less. With the progression of her anorexia, she only consumed 300ml of non-fat broth with which you cannot survive. When her body temperature fell to under 34° Celsius and she...

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My Lion Cub

Elena Pirin My Lion Cub The Adventure of Raising a Child with a Handicap Leo is a wonderful little person. He does just fine, just not at the pace that development tests and school plans expect. When Elena Pirin and her husband adopted a baby, they didn't realize their child was developmentally...

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The Great Departure

Sabine Mehne The Great Departure How I Lost the Fear of Death Through my near-death Experience Dying doesn't have to be a deadly serious thing. After Sabine Mehne had a near-death experience during her battle with cancer, the thought of death no longer makes her worry. On the contrary, she now...

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The Street Collector

Peter Schmidt The Street Collector The Incredible Adventures of an Autistic World Traveler Travel is by nature unpredictable. And autistic people hate unpredictability. That makes it all the more surprising that Peter Schmidt, diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, wants to collect all the roads of...

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Utterly Alone

Ann Helena Neudek Utterly Alone The Scars of my Childhood and How I Found my Way in Life »The beating had stopped. I cowered in the small tub. My mother sat in front of me and cried as she massaged her swollen hands.« For years, Ann Helena Neudek was beaten and humiliated by her parents. From the...