This is Amanda's story.
Born 4/25/56 in a small German town where she lived til the age of 14. In the last part of April 1969she was walking home from her friends house. They had been planing thier birthday party.Her friend's birthday was on May 2,so they were having a party for both the next weekend. A man pull up beside her and asked if she would help him with a baby in the back of his van , as he was in a wheelchair.She cuold see a wheelchair and hear the sound of a baby crying. So she climbed in the van to help as soon as she was in the van he hit her from behind and tied her up . for the next three weeks he raped and tortured her(the details of witch I will not go into). Lets just say he was a very EVIL man.Finally he dumped her in a ditch douse her body with gas and set her on fire.Then six months after she home and out of the hospital her parents were killed in a car crash.the only close relative in germany was her elderly grandmother who could not take care of her so she came to the stats to live with her aunt. We met as penpals in 1981 wrote back and forth for a few months til we found out we only lived 30 miles from each other.we only had three weeks of time together befor she had to go to Des Moines on business where she was again attacked and killed. AKD 04/25/56-07/14/82 May you find the peace you were denied in this life
Amanda was her name
her heart was full of pain
she just wanted to love
and someone to love her
but that could never be
her beauty men could not see
though her face was unmarred
her body was so badly scared
no doctor could fix
an evil man’s awful trick
she had given up on romance
when she met a man by chance
who saw beyond the scars
to a heart shining like the stars
with a heart of gold
he asked her to be his to hold
finally the love of a true friend
the painful heart is on the mend
her search was now over
Roger E. Bloodgood
05/29/03
