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Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots
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Paperdolls and Cowboy Boots
The original Paperdolls: Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods and the true events of the subsequent decades.
For Survivors of Sexual Assault
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April 1992
In honor of child abuse prevention month, Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods is released.
5,000 copies sold out first day. Reprints order 4 more times that month.
Carol Scott & April Daniels appeared* on numerous television and radio programs. Both co-authors provided extensive interviews for newspapers and periodicals.
*April did not show her face protecting her real identity. She felt she’d lost so much to the abuse she suffered as a child, she wanted to enjoy her beautifully built life as an adult.
Three radio hosts were awarded honors and awards for their work with April Daniels & Carol Scott.
Many of the radio interviews are provided in their entirelty on Apri Daniel’s substack, Paperdolls.Today.
1993
The book was picked up by a national publishing house, RPI in San Diego California. Gloria Steinem met with the authors in San Diego, and provided a wonderful endorsement:
A book which will allow others to be open about their experiences so that healing can begin.
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2023
The book has been out of print and in high demand online. Recently, April saw the book selling for $600 on Amazon. April’s intention has always been to provide this book as a gift of hope to other survivors of sexual assault, and this ridiculous price for her gift is one of the reasons the authors’ decided to re-release the book. The re-release is entitled Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots.
As April writes in the prologue of the soon to be released version, “When contemplating this next ideation of Paperdolls, Carol and I joked that it would be like the Old and New Testament.”
This release contains the original Paperdolls and includes the true events of the subsequent decades.
Survivors
Words of encouragement and inspiration to survivors of sexual assault: It’s not your fault. Your life is sacred. Stay on this earth. April’s states: “If I can do it, anyone can.”
There is scientific proof of the damage trauma can cause on the human body, especially a child’s body. However, this book provides strong evidence of the triumph and the resilences of the human spirit.
For those supporting survivors
Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots helps those who love and support victims and survivors. The book depicts the child’s trauma and how children and adults abused as children can heal. The book helps portray the survivor’s experiences, pain, and the challenges faced in healing.
Awareness
“With warmth and intelligence these authors blast light into the dark corners of a determinedly “innocent” society. Their honesty convinces and enlightens.”
—Linda Sillitoe, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, and Sideways to the Sun
Professional Therapy
The individuals depicted in this book who embraced professional therapy provide strong testimonials of the benefits of obtaining professional psychotherapy as early as possible. Tragically this book also illustrates heart breaking examples of those who refused treatemt. Many of those souls are no longer with us.
Endorsements
Gloria Steinem
A book which will allow others to be open about their experiences so that healing can begin.
Anne Collier
“I was fortunate to have been April Daniels’s neighbor for many years and can attest to the fact that April has been able to create her own uniquely beautiful life and overcome her childhood scars regarding neighbors—that she could actually trust, reach out to, and create healthy relationships with her neighbors in a great neighborhood. As co-director of ConnectSafely.org, I’d also like to say that, in courageously telling her story, April brings needed exposure to sexual manipulation and exploitation so that—as individuals, neighbors, and society as a whole—we can support victims better and work toward much more effective prevention.”
–Anne Collier, Founder and Executive Director of Net Family News, Inc.
Co-Author, Parents’ Guide to Facebook
Co-Chair, Internet Safety Technical Task Force
Wendy Hammond
“This book moved me again and again. It is a stunningly honest attempt of two women’s journeys – one private and anguished, the other public and outraged. It speaks openly about a taboo subject in our culture, a subject that usually compels us to turn away, or laugh behind our hands…But here, in the book, the subject is exposed with such depth and humanity I am finding I am drwn right in the middle of these women’s lives.”
Wendy Hammond’s plays include Absense, Julie Johnson, Family Life: 3 Brutal Comedies, Jersy City and The Ghostman.
Linda Sillitoe
Incest survivor APRIL DANIELS repressed the memory of her abuse by her father and neighbors for over twenty years. Reared in a devout Mormon home, she hadn’t yet reached kindergarten before she was sexually molested by her father. The years that followed brought repeated incidents of rape and humiliation—many of them at the hands of her older brothers and their friends.
Psychologist CAROL SCOTT, a grandmother, came face-to-face with the sexual molestation of her grandchildren by her son-in-law and his friends. The shocking revelation that April and Carol’s grandchildren were abused by the same person is one of the real-life dramatic twists in Paperdolls.
Paperdolls blasts light into the dark corners of one of society’s most pervasive and disturbing problems to uncover a powerful story of love, courage, and healing.
The late Linda Sillitoe’s work included Salamander: the Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, and Sideways to the Sun
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