Aired: February 23, 2009 – 11:00 AM PST
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TITLE: Live Through This
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SPECIAL GUEST: Debra Gwartney, author of the critically acclaimed book, “Live Through This.”
A heart wrenching tale of a family torn to pieces, but pieced back together through redeemed relationships. The story is personal, the author faced this situation herself. Listen in and hear this life changing and inspiring tale of a modern day family.
Two young girls determined to disappear—any parent’s nightmare—and the eventual journey back to fierce mother-daughter love.
With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 15, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other leaves off. They come to blame their mother for their family’s dislocation, and one day the two run off together—to the streets of their own city, then San Francisco, then utterly gone.
Live Through This—as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff’s Beautiful
