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Find Me
Release Date: 2002-03-31
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List Price: $23.95
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Product Description
"I met Stacie for the first time in May. Her voice was meek and flat on the phone. She wasn't crying, but I heard it, the unmistakable sound of desperation. This was the first call, the single call that would change my life, and hers too, probably forever". Rosie O'Donnell's candid memoir is a topsy-turvy tale of mistaken identities and strange psychological illnesses that may or may not exist. As the bizarre relationship between Rosie and a girl named Stacie who called the adoption agency where Rosie volunteers unravels, so too does Rosie's own history, forcing powerful acts of remembering and reckoning. Through it all, we come to know the author at levels that grow ever more surprising - and sometimes shocking - as Rosie reveals to us not only the way the past transforms the present, but how a single stranger thousands of miles away can spark irrational longings, profound obsession and, finally, the opportunity to put these forces to work in a healing way.
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 Find you!? How could anybody miss you!?
Sorry I know it's not much but it's all I had. Seriously though, this woman's great ham-like head could hide the Great Wall from alien space invaders. You couldn't mount her head above the fireplace in the den, you'd have to mount over the Jumbo-tron at the Astro-Dome.
And if there was ever a woman born of woman who looked MORE like Fred Flintstone, I've never seen her.
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 Touching Book to say the least!
I laughed, I cried, I felt like it was a story parrallel to my own. Came out of this book feeling like I knew Rosie and was so touched at how she was able to describe feelings that actually made you understand her joys and pains. This was one of the best reads in a long time for me. I am in the midst of Celebrity Detox but I am not finding it as hard to put down as Find Me was.
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What was that? ( dannywendy2 )
I bought this book at the dollar store and I think it was overpriced. I can't believe anyone published this book. It is like reading someone's story of a dream they had. It is confusing and it is just a dream so, who cares. Why would you want to read about it? I like Rosie, but I think you are missing nothing if you skip this book. I thought it would be a kind of bio, but it wasn't that at all. It was strange, and not even in an interesting way.
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 I will spare you the trouble of reading it ( rmjournal )
O'Donnell is contacted by a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder who pretends to be an abused, pregnant teenager who was raped by a youth minister. O'Donnell deeply identifies with her, which makes you wonder if she was molested by someone in her church. She ferociously bonds with this woman, even when she finds out the girl doesn't exist and the real woman is someone like her now. She still corresponds with this woman. This story is woven between scattered memories of her mother. We all lose our mother sooner or later, and the ones who lost her sooner suffer more, but you shouldn't drag it through the rest of your life like a crutch. Still, O'Donnell became rich and famous and can now support that crutch in grand style. Those of us not rich and famous just have to snap out of it. And that's it. It's not a biography because the glimpses of her journey to fame are too brief and disconnected. It's a depressing book.
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I give it two for being a compelling read... ( lejunktrunk )
but Rosie O'Donnel is a nutjob. She has serious issues. The fact that she flew this clinically insane woman out to NYC for a meet n' greet says loads about her own insanity. I had the heebie jeebies after reading this book. Rosie - you need therapy. And if you're already in therapy, you need to fire your shrink and get a better one.
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