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The Soulful Child: Twelve Years in the Wilderness
Out of the counterculture movement of the sixties arises a true story about risking it all for true freedom. Folk singer Jerry Gallaway and ex-ballet dancer Reva Lynn Gallaway leave behind a life of opportunity and fame to raise a family in the woods of northern New Mexico. For six children born in the wild with no birth certificates, no worldly identity, only the song of nature printed on them at birth, the woods became a place of learning and a place of refuge, until tragedy uprooted their foundation, leaving the youngsters split between two worlds. When forced to choose for themselves, would they live in nature with their parents, or seek a new life in society? Chloe Rachel Gallaway is the soulful child, bringing us the healing power of the wild through her photographic memories, authentic voice, and a tale of modern-day warriors and free thinkers carrying in their hearts an essential message about the priceless gifts of Mother Nature, her cycles of life and loss, and the transformative power of forgiveness.
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330 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2017
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September 23, 2017
When I was a little girl growing up in Chimayo, New Mexico, seven miles east of Española, we spent much of our summers taking a break from the heat in the valley to visit a primitive house at the foot of several acres of property in the small mountain village of Peñasco — twenty-five miles from home. My dad purchased the property in the ’70s. We would drive up, deep into the mountains through the mountain village, and along the way I would see houses of various interesting shapes. I remember my father saying “hippies” lived in those houses. I had no idea what hippies were and wasn’t sure why they were there but they were always a curiosity to me. I had some inkling that these people were trying to get away from something; what, I didn’t know. My seven-year-old self had barely seen anything outside of my own little community.
Being raised in the small town of Chimayo, where even though people think there are few inhabitants but in fact there are many homes spread out into the hills, some of which are practically on top of each other, I always knew it was considered “rural life”. My father raised and butchered animals to feed his family, had a cellar in the house to store jellies and canned fruit from our trees, and taught me the history of our ancestors, the people who came from Spain through Mexico to settle and work the land. I thought I was as small town rural as small town rural could get.
Little did I know that, at the same time I was wondering about the mountain people, the gringo hippies as I knew them, there was a precocious little girl living wild among the beauty of the forest and the animals of nature, less than a hundred miles away, and not too far from the place I used to go camping with my cousins and grandpa. Little would I realize, until now, how much more advanced I was than this little girl in the “ways of the world” and yet how I knew nothing of surviving the “real” world and how painfully deprived I was of the experience of truly understanding, appreciating, and being one with nature.
I remember the first time I saw Chloe at my high school. I had already known her brother Nye, on whom I immediately developed a crush and who probably most of the girls had been crushing on. Chloe was every bit as beautiful as her brother was handsome. She had wild, strawberry blondish hair and the softest, kindest demeanor. Chloe, Nye, and their brother Carey, who I also knew of when I first started high school, were always a mystery to me. I heard they were in foster care because they had lived off the grid and hadn’t been in school but that was about all I knew. Though I always liked them I never got to know either Nye or Chloe much and now I realize what I was missing by failing to befriend them as more than just acquaintances; unfortunate for me.
But fast forward almost thirty years and, thanks to social media where I reconnected with these beautiful, but somewhat mysterious, people and now to read the story of their lives, the mystery is finally unlocked. It’s not like I wondered all of these years but once we reconnected the memories came flooding back.
When I found out Chloe was writing her story and is a writing coach, combined with the fact that my own passion has always been writing and my journey for the past five years has been toward that passion despite choosing a completely different path, it seemed like kismet to me. Then to connect with Nye and observe his views of the world from a holistic perspective, to see that he is aware of many esoteric things I have researched over the past several years about our world as well as the importance of the mind-body connection and natural healing, has caused me to ponder. I have struggled to find many people who think the way I do or remotely understand my way of thinking, as these ideas and beliefs are somewhat rare though gaining traction. It all makes me wonder when that connection began, on what plane of existence, or by what destiny.
The Soulful Child: Twelve Years in the Wilderness by Chloe Rachel Gallaway is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. She paints a picture of her life in the wild with the most vivid of colors, emotions, and sounds and from a place where you can almost smell and even taste the experience. Her descriptions penetrate the very core of your heart and soul making you wonder if she was sent here from another planet to convey a message of hope in a chaotic world. Perhaps she is an angel sent to paint a picture of two separate worlds desperately attempting to coexist so that we, the readers, will find solace in understanding those deep-seated feelings we all have while questioning our very existence and what it all means.
“She was the worker on the riverbanks you never took notice of, the quiet person in the rice fields of China, the Tibetan monk on the mountainside, never stirred by the cold. She knew her purpose and walked with it daily. She would bring healing to the collapsed souls, to the feet that needed to be scrubbed, and she would get right in there and do it herself.” It is passages such as this that leave you wishing the story would never end or that you could savor this morsel of her experience for just a minute longer.
Chloe has a way of awakening the senses such that the hardships she faced growing up in the wild and her manner of coping with this way of life makes you wonder if you have been wandering the earth half dead or barely living. As I read of her longing to leave the wilderness to explore the world I couldn’t help but wonder why. She paints a picture of a freedom and connection to the animals and the wild that makes you question your own path and how, despite having everything you needed and becoming successful in your own right, there are some experiences you would never, and could never, have. And these experiences might have been so rich and fulfilling that nothing could possibly compare. There were moments in reading about her upbringing where, despite the hardship and struggle, it was nearly envious.
Yet equally as riveting was her description of the way she yearned to experience life as a child of the world and you couldn’t help but root for her in realizing that dream. The lengths to which she went to escape the dark side of her upbringing were inspirational. Even more inspirational was the way she was able to love and forgive her father for who he was despite the chains she felt from his very existence. Those chains tugging at her soul toward freedom and toward love.
This book will leave you wondering who was the lucky one. Was it the child who was never taken from her parents, who always had the comforts of the world, and never had to work very hard for her sustenance? The person who was raised eating processed foods and being conditioned to live in the world of commerce? Or was it the soulful child, for making the connection with herself, her spirit, the earth, and nature at such a young age? Was it she for being raised on truly clean food, no poisons in the form of vaccinations, medications or the toxins of fuel exhaust and electromagnetic pollution now plaguing many large cities?
The Soulful Child is a story of bondage in a place of ultimate freedom, and freedom in a place of ultimate bondage. It is a story of two very different worlds; two separate and very distinct types of prisons yet when viewed from the eyes of a beautiful, strong, high-spirited, kind, and loving human being you see that life is what we make of it and freedom is in the heart of the beholder.
This book will leave you contemplating your own journey and hoping that you are able to connect with yourself and find solace even amidst the chaos of the frenetic lives most of us lead. Even more, you will hope you realize the need for seeking this solace and taking a moment to contemplate, and just be. The book has the potential to impact not just on an individual level but also on society as a whole, because if enough people are able to feel the lesson of connecting with their own inner soulful child, we can change the world.
This book is for anyone who needs to understand their own journey, for anyone who constantly wishes for different circumstances, for anyone who needs to step outside themselves to feel another person’s experience, for anyone who needs to escape from their own reality, for anyone who wonders what it would be like to truly live in nature, and for anyone who just needs to feel.
Chloe captures the essence and beauty of Northern New Mexico, the mountains and the beautiful Española valley, her people, the problems and the victories like no other. It makes me proud to be from the area despite its reputation and it reminds me of how much I need to go up into those mountains for the connection one can only receive from being among the forest trees, catching the occasional glimpse of wildlife and the visceral experience from the sense of beauty and the scents of beauty.
Among the clashing of two extreme worlds, one wherein longing for human connection and global knowledge that can only come from corporeal experiences is palpable, and the other a desperate grasp for escape from the pandemonium of that world, we realize we have choices. We can choose to see the beauty in each experience and run with it, literally, or we can choose to allow it to enslave us. We can choose to create our own freedom wherever we are, or we can choose to constantly lament the walls that may or may not be closing in on us. Chloe chose the former and came out a hero in the end. Well, she is a hero in my eyes.
The next question is not if or even when this book will become a movie but whether there is a filmmaker out there with the heart, soul, passion, and depth to convey the underlying message of the book. I anxiously await the discovery of such a person if it is possible and she too will become my hero.
© Marcie Martinez, B.S. Ch.E., M.S. M.Sc., NaturesPresence.net, All Rights Reserved
Being raised in the small town of Chimayo, where even though people think there are few inhabitants but in fact there are many homes spread out into the hills, some of which are practically on top of each other, I always knew it was considered “rural life”. My father raised and butchered animals to feed his family, had a cellar in the house to store jellies and canned fruit from our trees, and taught me the history of our ancestors, the people who came from Spain through Mexico to settle and work the land. I thought I was as small town rural as small town rural could get.
Little did I know that, at the same time I was wondering about the mountain people, the gringo hippies as I knew them, there was a precocious little girl living wild among the beauty of the forest and the animals of nature, less than a hundred miles away, and not too far from the place I used to go camping with my cousins and grandpa. Little would I realize, until now, how much more advanced I was than this little girl in the “ways of the world” and yet how I knew nothing of surviving the “real” world and how painfully deprived I was of the experience of truly understanding, appreciating, and being one with nature.
I remember the first time I saw Chloe at my high school. I had already known her brother Nye, on whom I immediately developed a crush and who probably most of the girls had been crushing on. Chloe was every bit as beautiful as her brother was handsome. She had wild, strawberry blondish hair and the softest, kindest demeanor. Chloe, Nye, and their brother Carey, who I also knew of when I first started high school, were always a mystery to me. I heard they were in foster care because they had lived off the grid and hadn’t been in school but that was about all I knew. Though I always liked them I never got to know either Nye or Chloe much and now I realize what I was missing by failing to befriend them as more than just acquaintances; unfortunate for me.
But fast forward almost thirty years and, thanks to social media where I reconnected with these beautiful, but somewhat mysterious, people and now to read the story of their lives, the mystery is finally unlocked. It’s not like I wondered all of these years but once we reconnected the memories came flooding back.
When I found out Chloe was writing her story and is a writing coach, combined with the fact that my own passion has always been writing and my journey for the past five years has been toward that passion despite choosing a completely different path, it seemed like kismet to me. Then to connect with Nye and observe his views of the world from a holistic perspective, to see that he is aware of many esoteric things I have researched over the past several years about our world as well as the importance of the mind-body connection and natural healing, has caused me to ponder. I have struggled to find many people who think the way I do or remotely understand my way of thinking, as these ideas and beliefs are somewhat rare though gaining traction. It all makes me wonder when that connection began, on what plane of existence, or by what destiny.
The Soulful Child: Twelve Years in the Wilderness by Chloe Rachel Gallaway is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. She paints a picture of her life in the wild with the most vivid of colors, emotions, and sounds and from a place where you can almost smell and even taste the experience. Her descriptions penetrate the very core of your heart and soul making you wonder if she was sent here from another planet to convey a message of hope in a chaotic world. Perhaps she is an angel sent to paint a picture of two separate worlds desperately attempting to coexist so that we, the readers, will find solace in understanding those deep-seated feelings we all have while questioning our very existence and what it all means.
“She was the worker on the riverbanks you never took notice of, the quiet person in the rice fields of China, the Tibetan monk on the mountainside, never stirred by the cold. She knew her purpose and walked with it daily. She would bring healing to the collapsed souls, to the feet that needed to be scrubbed, and she would get right in there and do it herself.” It is passages such as this that leave you wishing the story would never end or that you could savor this morsel of her experience for just a minute longer.
Chloe has a way of awakening the senses such that the hardships she faced growing up in the wild and her manner of coping with this way of life makes you wonder if you have been wandering the earth half dead or barely living. As I read of her longing to leave the wilderness to explore the world I couldn’t help but wonder why. She paints a picture of a freedom and connection to the animals and the wild that makes you question your own path and how, despite having everything you needed and becoming successful in your own right, there are some experiences you would never, and could never, have. And these experiences might have been so rich and fulfilling that nothing could possibly compare. There were moments in reading about her upbringing where, despite the hardship and struggle, it was nearly envious.
Yet equally as riveting was her description of the way she yearned to experience life as a child of the world and you couldn’t help but root for her in realizing that dream. The lengths to which she went to escape the dark side of her upbringing were inspirational. Even more inspirational was the way she was able to love and forgive her father for who he was despite the chains she felt from his very existence. Those chains tugging at her soul toward freedom and toward love.
This book will leave you wondering who was the lucky one. Was it the child who was never taken from her parents, who always had the comforts of the world, and never had to work very hard for her sustenance? The person who was raised eating processed foods and being conditioned to live in the world of commerce? Or was it the soulful child, for making the connection with herself, her spirit, the earth, and nature at such a young age? Was it she for being raised on truly clean food, no poisons in the form of vaccinations, medications or the toxins of fuel exhaust and electromagnetic pollution now plaguing many large cities?
The Soulful Child is a story of bondage in a place of ultimate freedom, and freedom in a place of ultimate bondage. It is a story of two very different worlds; two separate and very distinct types of prisons yet when viewed from the eyes of a beautiful, strong, high-spirited, kind, and loving human being you see that life is what we make of it and freedom is in the heart of the beholder.
This book will leave you contemplating your own journey and hoping that you are able to connect with yourself and find solace even amidst the chaos of the frenetic lives most of us lead. Even more, you will hope you realize the need for seeking this solace and taking a moment to contemplate, and just be. The book has the potential to impact not just on an individual level but also on society as a whole, because if enough people are able to feel the lesson of connecting with their own inner soulful child, we can change the world.
This book is for anyone who needs to understand their own journey, for anyone who constantly wishes for different circumstances, for anyone who needs to step outside themselves to feel another person’s experience, for anyone who needs to escape from their own reality, for anyone who wonders what it would be like to truly live in nature, and for anyone who just needs to feel.
Chloe captures the essence and beauty of Northern New Mexico, the mountains and the beautiful Española valley, her people, the problems and the victories like no other. It makes me proud to be from the area despite its reputation and it reminds me of how much I need to go up into those mountains for the connection one can only receive from being among the forest trees, catching the occasional glimpse of wildlife and the visceral experience from the sense of beauty and the scents of beauty.
Among the clashing of two extreme worlds, one wherein longing for human connection and global knowledge that can only come from corporeal experiences is palpable, and the other a desperate grasp for escape from the pandemonium of that world, we realize we have choices. We can choose to see the beauty in each experience and run with it, literally, or we can choose to allow it to enslave us. We can choose to create our own freedom wherever we are, or we can choose to constantly lament the walls that may or may not be closing in on us. Chloe chose the former and came out a hero in the end. Well, she is a hero in my eyes.
The next question is not if or even when this book will become a movie but whether there is a filmmaker out there with the heart, soul, passion, and depth to convey the underlying message of the book. I anxiously await the discovery of such a person if it is possible and she too will become my hero.
© Marcie Martinez, B.S. Ch.E., M.S. M.Sc., NaturesPresence.net, All Rights Reserved
January 6, 2018
I was blown away by this true story of Chloe growing up in the wild until she was 12 years old with her family. There are so many contrasting moments in this beautifully written memoir. Living in the wild has given her a strong connection to nature and taught her to trust her intuition but there were many painful and isolating moments too. This is a story that will make you laugh and cry. A story of forgiveness, love and resilience. This book is a gift that touched my heart deeply. Just read it!
September 30, 2017
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AS A SOCIAL WORKER I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE RESILIENCY OF THIS FAMILY AS WELL AS WITH A RURAL, NEW MEXICO TOWN TO PROVIDE TOPNOTCH CPS AND FOSTER PLACEMENT SERVICES. READ THIS AND FEEL JOY AND HOPE!
The Summer of Love was a time of breaking boundaries and creating new ways of living in America. It produced fantastic music, art and literature. It established activism methods used by participants in Black Lives Matter and other recent protests.
This past summer was the 50th anniversary of that time, celebrated by KQED San Francisco in interview format. 3 adult survivors discussed their childhood experience of being raised in an atmosphere producing both independence and harm. Their 3 books were showcased on KQED Summer of Love.
Chloe Rachael Galloway’s story differs from the others mentioned because she and her siblings were born and raised in an isolate Forrest. Chloe’s parents set upon Haight Ashbury in 1967 to detach from former lives of privilege and parental edicts. They visited several communes on the way to the southwest including one in Placitas, New Mexico. Their last stop was their homestead which Chloe’s Dad, Jerry, literally purchased from now deceased actor – Dennis Hopper – for a song. The Galloway family lived in a small cabin located far off the grid in the high desert mountains of northern New Mexico. Little contact existed with the outside world and family religious beliefs disavowed medical intervention as well as schooling. However, the intelligence of both parents fostered skills of observation, comparison and analysis in the children. Today, Chloe and her siblings live accomplished and fascinating lives.
I am impressed with Chloe’s ability to compassionately relate her tale. This is the mark of a true writer: crafting story allowing readers to independently form opinions. She captures the isolation of that time and space as well as her yearning for community. The writing of this book was healing for Chloe and will be for her readers interested in the crossroad of family needs and social mandates.
AS A SOCIAL WORKER I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE RESILIENCY OF THIS FAMILY AS WELL AS WITH A RURAL, NEW MEXICO TOWN TO PROVIDE TOPNOTCH CPS AND FOSTER PLACEMENT SERVICES. READ THIS AND FEEL JOY AND HOPE!
The Summer of Love was a time of breaking boundaries and creating new ways of living in America. It produced fantastic music, art and literature. It established activism methods used by participants in Black Lives Matter and other recent protests.
This past summer was the 50th anniversary of that time, celebrated by KQED San Francisco in interview format. 3 adult survivors discussed their childhood experience of being raised in an atmosphere producing both independence and harm. Their 3 books were showcased on KQED Summer of Love.
Chloe Rachael Galloway’s story differs from the others mentioned because she and her siblings were born and raised in an isolate Forrest. Chloe’s parents set upon Haight Ashbury in 1967 to detach from former lives of privilege and parental edicts. They visited several communes on the way to the southwest including one in Placitas, New Mexico. Their last stop was their homestead which Chloe’s Dad, Jerry, literally purchased from now deceased actor – Dennis Hopper – for a song. The Galloway family lived in a small cabin located far off the grid in the high desert mountains of northern New Mexico. Little contact existed with the outside world and family religious beliefs disavowed medical intervention as well as schooling. However, the intelligence of both parents fostered skills of observation, comparison and analysis in the children. Today, Chloe and her siblings live accomplished and fascinating lives.
I am impressed with Chloe’s ability to compassionately relate her tale. This is the mark of a true writer: crafting story allowing readers to independently form opinions. She captures the isolation of that time and space as well as her yearning for community. The writing of this book was healing for Chloe and will be for her readers interested in the crossroad of family needs and social mandates.
August 10, 2020
This memoir was written by a local author here in New Mexico. I found it difficult to put down. I’ve read other memoirs by women raised in unconventional ways but this one was different in that the author really seemed to understand and forgive her father for his shortcomings. Well worth the read
September 23, 2017
This book took my breath away! Chloe’s gift of storytelling is incredible. I felt overwhelmed at times, as if I was there with her and her family. You will laugh and you will cry. Then you will remember that this is a true story and feel the words in your soul.
Chloe’s life in the wilderness until she was 12 is unbelievably painful at times and draws you in. The siblings starting over in civilization was described in poignant detail and your heart will ache and then you will applaud. I’m sure the descriptions of New Mexico will have adventurers planning a trip to see the rugged beauty she describes. She leaves nothing out and fully embraces how spirituality, religion, and even domestic abuse played a part in her family’s story. This is a story of courage and family and forgiveness in a way I have never experienced.
Chloe’s life in the wilderness until she was 12 is unbelievably painful at times and draws you in. The siblings starting over in civilization was described in poignant detail and your heart will ache and then you will applaud. I’m sure the descriptions of New Mexico will have adventurers planning a trip to see the rugged beauty she describes. She leaves nothing out and fully embraces how spirituality, religion, and even domestic abuse played a part in her family’s story. This is a story of courage and family and forgiveness in a way I have never experienced.
November 6, 2017
Best read in a long time.
It really puts my heart back to the connections I have with the earth, woods and dirt that I hold so dear. The reason I value them so mach as an adult is because of the love my gentle father had for nature. Thank you for your great story. It brought me to tears and there is little in life that can do that.
It really puts my heart back to the connections I have with the earth, woods and dirt that I hold so dear. The reason I value them so mach as an adult is because of the love my gentle father had for nature. Thank you for your great story. It brought me to tears and there is little in life that can do that.
August 12, 2022
This book is a memoir of growing up in the wilderness of New Mexico. Before the author, Chloe Rachel Galloway, was born, her father moved his family to a remote area to raise his six children. They had no birth certificates, never attended school, and never went to a doctor despite serious mishaps. They were born at home with just their father helping with the birth.
Despite their father's desperate attempt to keep them "from the world," the allure of life beyond the wilderness called to them. When she was 12, she was taken from her parents and put into the child protective services system where she and her brothers and sister were fostered by an elderly woman who nurtured them and helped them forge new lives for themselves.
Chloe saw two men in her father -- one who loved his family and would do anything for them, and one who had a well of anger and violence that would spew forth at unexpected times. As she learns to forgive her father and understand him, she experiences healing herself.
Despite their father's desperate attempt to keep them "from the world," the allure of life beyond the wilderness called to them. When she was 12, she was taken from her parents and put into the child protective services system where she and her brothers and sister were fostered by an elderly woman who nurtured them and helped them forge new lives for themselves.
Chloe saw two men in her father -- one who loved his family and would do anything for them, and one who had a well of anger and violence that would spew forth at unexpected times. As she learns to forgive her father and understand him, she experiences healing herself.
March 15, 2022
This book was somewhat similar t0 Tara Westover's Educated. This author really plumbs the depths of emotions and talk about writing through a lens of forgiveness. There is not the physical abuse that was present in Westover's life. I also felt the emotion more clearly in this book. As I think about it, Chloe wanted the emotion; Tara was writing more like a documentary for PBS... Both childhoods, so different from my own were fascinating in different ways. I would highly recommend reading both books!
August 7, 2019
Deeply engaging, author Chloe Gallaway captures the past, present, and future with a true story of growing up in a different world. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to live in a remote reality of nature and family and intense challenge, this is your book. Inspiration follows the author in the aftermath of this experience, as she shares this unique story with readers everywhere. Take a few days, dip into this wonderful story of adventure and love.
August 15, 2019
This beautifully written autobiography details Chloe's early life growing up in the wilderness of New Mexico. You see her transition from an innocent child completely isolated from everything except nature and her family, to a young woman who longs for and finally journeys into "the world." She is an amazing story teller who artfully describes her surroundings and emotions. Her style is both peaceful and engaging. This book is a great read.
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July 15, 2018I couldn’t hardly put this book down. I absolutely loved it. It was a beautiful book that brought me back to my childhood. I didn’t know much about the writer but I had met her father once. My grandparents lived in Lindrith, And are even mentioned in the book. We lost both of them last year and reading this book reminds me of their spirit.
August 4, 2018
A true story, gripping, powerful and unforgettable
I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. I could not put it down until I had finished it. It pulled at my heartstrings and evoked more than a few tears as I followed the author through her experiences and life lessons. I love this book.
I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. I could not put it down until I had finished it. It pulled at my heartstrings and evoked more than a few tears as I followed the author through her experiences and life lessons. I love this book.
October 24, 2022
The book was well written, and her life was interesting and admirable. I live in NM and am familiar with the various locations she describes. I also value nature and the forest. I can’t really say why I had trouble getting into the book. I’m not a big fan of memoirs, and this one seemed repetitive to me. It’s certainly worth reading, however.
May 14, 2024
It is a beautiful story about a girl who grows up in the wilderness with her hippie parents and siblings. Having to find food, clothe themselves, and endure unpredictable weather allows the reader to feel their pain on many levels. The author and book are gems waiting to be discovered. I highly recommend this non-fiction jewel.
August 12, 2018
I had the pleasure of reading this book and I could hardly put it down. Chloe's story is captivating! She has gone through so much and come through the other side with love, grace, nature, and connection. I implore you to pick up a copy and get lost in her story like I did!
January 10, 2020
Beautifully written story about life in New Mexico ... from the small cabin in the woods to a college dorm at UNM. This book shows the reader that family is what's important no matter the situation. Written by a local New Mexico author.
June 14, 2021
Heartfelt truth, understanding and forgiveness
What a story! Made even more beautiful when
the reality of their lives smacks you in the face, to see the forgiveness and growth that began in the woods.
What a story! Made even more beautiful when
the reality of their lives smacks you in the face, to see the forgiveness and growth that began in the woods.
October 28, 2021
A Soulful Story!
Loved The Soulful Child. A great memoir about growing up wild and taking that freedom into the less than wild world, which expects us to follow societal convention without question. Most importantly, a moving ending -- satisfying, forgiving and enlightening.
Loved The Soulful Child. A great memoir about growing up wild and taking that freedom into the less than wild world, which expects us to follow societal convention without question. Most importantly, a moving ending -- satisfying, forgiving and enlightening.
July 26, 2018
Emotional roller coaster, I couldn't put down.
Compelling story.
Definitely recommended reading.
Compelling story.
Definitely recommended reading.
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