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Old 05-01-2006, 03:19 AM
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You know, i've always hated Nancy Spungen, always thought that she was a hanger on, wannabe. And yeah i still think she was a groupie, but after reading just some of this book, i feel really sorry for her.

She obviously had tremedous trouble within herself and it must have been awful living in a head like that, especially as a child. I suffer from bi-polar so i know what its like to live in a head which is not the best, but at least i was a happy child.

Its sad, but maybe she was better off to live a short life. I still don't believe sid killed her at least not on purpose

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Old 05-01-2006, 10:34 AM
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I posted in the "old" KR that we bought that book on Amazon, and when we got it, it had been signed by Deborah Spungeon and it had a note written in it from Deborah to someone thanking them for their work with victims of violent crime. It's a pretty cool thing to have.

That book was really heartbreaking. That poor family and poor Sid. It really probably was better that Nancy lived a short life. It seemed like she was suffering from the moment she was born.
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Old 05-01-2006, 12:49 PM
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I really love that book. I think nancy was and still is a misunderstood person. I found it amazing how her mother can be so frank about all the things nancy did and yet still love her. It must have been incredibly difficult for her.
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Old 05-01-2006, 08:21 PM
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I'd never heard of Nancy before I read the book. I picked it up in a bookstore right around the time it came out because the cover copy grabbed me (I was in my early teens, I was in grade school when she died, and I don't remember the incident, despite living in the NYC metro area).

I love the book, and I think it was really important to write because of all the horrible ways the medical establishment failed her. It's heartbreaking. She was probably never going to be alright, but they just made it so much worse.

I was surprised to see that there seems to be a large negative reaction against the book, I've seen it a lot here, and I don't get it. I can understand saying that Deborah was trying to make people see that it wasn't 'her fault' but she really didn't stint on the damage having such an impaired child did to their family and how she broke at times under the strain. I know now I'm an old hag who despite being childless as of yet might tend to automatically side more with a mother than a child, but I was 13 or 14 when I first read it, and I felt the same way.
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Old 05-02-2006, 12:06 PM
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i'm bipolar as well its horrible cos they cant cure it only manage it, i've always wanted to read this book i may have a look on ebay for it

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