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As a second-grader, she felt so unprotected that she dropped out of school for a year a few years later, during an especially traumatic period, she spent most of three months sleeping. But even with these guardian personae, the little girl Sue remains acutely vulnerable. One is Dina, passive and wanting only to please the other is Celeste, angry, challenging, and hungry. Two new personalities emerge to take the brunt of her father's sexual forays.

I discover its pleasure before its shame''), Silverman is able to recreate the emotional trail that leads from terror to pleasure, from confusion and fear to disassociation. Extraordinarily frank (``It feels good, yes. With her mother's unspoken acquiesence (``I was a present to her husband'') Silverman became a willing instrument in calming her beloved father's frequent rages.

Beginning when she was four years old, the incest escalated from fondling in the bathtub to oral and finally full-fledged and frequent vaginal intercourse. With great courage and startling compassion, Silverman tells the story of how her father, once chief counsel to the secretary of the Interior and later an international banker, made her his sexual companion. A woman's excrutiatingly painful and explicit account of 14 years of incestuous abuse.