About Keith I am fifty-six and live in New Jersey. I was thirteen years old when I drew St. Paul’s Church for the cover of our parish bulletin. Three years later I would daydream about hanging myself in the church steeple. I was sexually abused for four years, first by the musical

About Misty Hi, I'm Misty. Eight years after leaving the Amish I finally sat down and started typing my memoir Tears of the Silenced. I had spent those past eight years trying to forget my terrible childhood and the horrifying assault that had been the reason for my leaving the Amish church.