Beschrijving
For fifty-five years, I carried a weight I didn’t even know was there. Surviving childhood abuse at my father’s hands, I set out on a lifelong mission: to find love, to build a career, to make my life a success.
Instead, I was met with rejection after rejection-from women, from employers, from a world that seemed to close every door. Through it all, Tina Arena’s music became my solace, and grit became my only fuel.
But here is the extraordinary truth: I never felt my own real feelings and needs. Until now.
This memoir is my reckoning. It is the story of a rare and relentless journey-marked by thousands of rejections, shattered romances, financial struggles, and the quiet terror of a wounded boy who refused to stop trying. After 55 years of pain and frustration, I am finally ready to tell the world who I am, what I endured, and how hard I fought to make my life work-despite the fear, despite the conditions, despite everything.
This is not a story of victory. It is a story of surviving. And it is only just beginning.