“DRIVEN! Gambling, Girls, Guts, & God . . .” Ch 2 Now Posted!
By Kevin A. Lehmann on in My Memoir
After reading chapter 1, I’m sure you’re asking, “What in the hell could possibly make a guy live on the edge like that? I don’t blame you, but I think chapter 2 will definitely begin to answer the question. Like chapter 1, it’s not for the faint of heart, but for a different reason.
Here is an excerpt from “DRIVEN! Gambling, Girls, Guts & God”
As luck would have it though, my foster mother caught me red-handed. Oddly, instead of rewarding my ingenuity or showing concern over my state of dehydration, she punished me. She filled a potato pot full of water, sat me down at the kitchen picnic table, and said, “Drink.” I was only too happy to oblige her until she forced me to keep drinking long after I was full. “Drink some more!” she said. “I can’t—my tummy wants to pop,” I replied. When I couldn’t hold another drop, I puked on the red and white vinyl tablecloth; from there, it oozed to the edge and dripped to the floor.
“Lick it up!” she insisted. Thinking she wasn’t serious, I refused. “I said, eat it!” she commanded more emphatically. Pouting, I replied, “I can’t. I don’t want to eat it.” She then placed her hand on the back of my head and forced me to lick it up. I ate what I could until I hurled again from the stench of consuming my own vomit.
Experiencing such intense emotions: anger, guilt, shame, abandonment, humiliation, and despair as a toddler just increased my threshold for pain and forced me to persevere at a very early age. The abuse also created a torrent of anger and rage that gave rise to a tsunami of defiance and rebellion, which, in addition to shaping my character, I sublimated into the rocket fuel that drove my intense desire for autonomy and entrepreneurial aspirations as an adult.
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