Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography
Pages: 180, Kindle Edition
Published: June 2017
Cover Rating: 5/5
In her memoir Just Another Girl’s Story, Laura Eckert opens a pool for the reader to dive in her personal life and consequences she faced for her actions. A real life story of love, loss, courage, faith and redemption.
Starting from her teenage days, the book is divided in two parts. The abridged version will provide you with an overview of who Laura Eckert is and what is her story about. It’ s a detailed preface or an introduction. The next part that shares the major half of the book is called the Unabridged version and the author starts narrating her story from the age she was five.
At age of 16 and 17, Laura became pregnant and found herself as a patient at an abortion clinic near her parents home. After one year, she was pregnant again but decided to keep her child with the support of her family. From then, she started to walk on the path of redemption by going back to school and picking up jobs to take care of her child. She was soon married and gave birth to another child with her husband.
She has emphasised enough about the awareness for teenage pregnancy and the hardships she and her family went through in her teenage days. She does accept her mistakes and addiction to coitus that lead to two abortions. Her life story from her teens to the adult life is a great example how one can regain faith, hope with courage and a little support from loved ones.
I always believe that if one accepts their wrong doings, that is the first and an important step towards redemption. It has been a real experience for me and the same is showcased by Laura in her memoir. Not only she acknowledge her wrongs or mistakes of her past that would have taken a lot of courage and is observable by her words in terms of array of emotions she went through due to her self-sabotaging behaviour and destructive addictions. Nonetheless, she also talks about how she completely turned around her life in her early twenties after spoiling the whole teenage and her only goal that her own children would not face the reality she wove.
This is heart-warming, real life experience of someone who made some bad choices but changed the course of their lives by acknowledging their own consciousness.
4 out of 5!
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Note: I received this book from the author but that doesn’t mean my review is breaking any reviewing rules and I thank them for their effort with all my heart.
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