The first time Kathleen Anderson was sexually abused she was just four years old. That memory remains, but over the years many other horrific ones were made as she was repeatedly abused by different persons. In an effort to escape, she searched for what she thought was love and became pregnant at the age of 14; by the time she was 18 years old, she had three children.
Though life has thrown boulders at her from all sides, Anderson persevered at times literally through blood, sweat and tears. Today she is at a stage where she has made peace with those painful experiences so much so that she has written about them; her biography is titled The Pain in my Smile.
