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April Daniels

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April Daniels is the co-author of Paperdolls: Healing From Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods (1992) and Paperdolls: A True Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods (1993).

Newly released: Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots.

Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhood and the True Events of the Subsequent Decades.


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If We Didn't Abuse Our Children, Would We Even Have a Military?

Housekeeping: This extraordinary piece is sent out in two parts. The first half of this incredible post by Linnea Butler was published Friday November 21, 2025.

April Note: This compelling piece by Linnea Butler cut right to my heart. Last June, on Fathers’ Day, I dedicated a piece To My Father. My father was an Army Ranger, similar to the Navy’s SEALs. After reading this piece by Li

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I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
I Must Betray You
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Everyone needs to read this! It's well written and well researched.

Reading this book, prompted me to write this post:
https://www.paperdolls.today/p/freedom

Here's the part on my substack post specifically about "I Must Betray You."

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
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Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet Geringer Woititz
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Presented as a "Resource for Further Reading" in both the 1992 and 1993 editions of Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods.


Great book! I still refer to this one frequently.
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She Who Was Lost Is Remembered by Louise M. Wisechild
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Healing the Child Within by Charles L. Whitfield
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On the Path by Nancy W
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Presented as a "Resource for Further Reading" in both the 1992 and 1993 editions of Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods.

(We have it listed as first published in 1991)
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Refusing to be a Man by John Stoltenberg
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