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On this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest person in his Family and offering new insights into one of the 20th century's most notorious thieves and life as you of his "girls". At get older 14, Dianne Lake - with little more than a take note of in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her authorization to leave them - became one of "Charlie's girls", a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson. During the period of two years, the impressionable teen endured manipulation, emotional control, and physical abuse as the severe realities and looming darkness of Charles Manson's true nature revealed itself. From Spahn ranch and the group acid trips towards the Beatles' White Album and Manson's dangerous messiah complex, Dianne explains to the riveting tale of the group's descent into madness as she resided it. Though she never participated in any of the group's gruesome crimes and was purposely insulated from them, Dianne was arrested with the rest of the Manson Family and finally learned enough to become listed on the prosecution's circumstance against them. By using good Samaritans, like the cop who first arrested her and later adopted her, the courageous young girl eventually found redemption and grew up to lead an ordinary life. While much has been written about Charles Manson, this riveting bank account from an actual Relative is a chilling portrait that recreates in brilliant detail one of the very most horrifying and interesting chapters in modern American record.
