Books with title Lyrics Pathetic

Pathetic is the true life story of my time at Laurentian University. In this book, I describe the events of my life, from my earliest memories, until I finished my studies at the age of twenty-three. When I arrived at Laurentian University, I was nineteen years old, and carried a heavy load on my shoulders. Before my first day of school I lived many things. Africa, the Canadian North, Markham, Malton, Aurora, anonymous places, a foster home, abuse, neglect, hunger, and disease. I gazed into the face of death more than once, suffered inside the mind of a schizophrenic father, abandoned by a non-existent mother, attended AA meetings with the sick and hurting. I survived gun violence, lived among the rich and poor, fought over bread and oranges, worked long hours in factories and even longer hours in winter. All of this went on for a very long time. I marched through the depths of solitude and sickness few nineteen-year olds could ever understand and I did it alone. I never had any real discussion with an adult or anyone about anything. I kept whatever pain I was feeling hidden, and wore a mask to cover what was inside. Now I was going to start college. Somehow I made it. Somehow in spite of all the odds against me, I was going to study. Little did I know, the worst was yet to come. Laurentian University would become the most life crushing experience in my life. The social justice warriors, the feminists, the Marxists, the gay rights activists, were waiting for me, and together they would finish me off once and for all.