Love as Always, Mum xxx: The true and terrible story of surviving a childhood with Fred and Rose West

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I can understand that not wanting to believe your family is capable of that, it's totally understandable. But to go on believing she is innocent, even after she is convicted, to the point where you lose relationships with your siblings the only people who can truly understand everything you've been through. Yet you still took her side? Gross. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan

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Isn't it funny how hours turn into days, days turn into weeks and before we know it over a year has gone by. When I first started this blog I was in a whole different life then the current life I am living now. And I find a whole new purpose for blogging, so.. testing, testing.. 123 is anyone out there?

Mom, you were my first friend and after all this years you still have been my true loyal friend. I love you now and forever. Happy Mother’s Day.”

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This book covers Mae's entire life, from growing up in 25 Cromwell Street, to becoming a mother and trying to escape her past. It also focuses on the manipulative relationship Mae had with her mother until she finally found the strength to cut her off. Now Gavin's Auntie Alicia may not be blood related but let me tell you that does not matter one bit! I have been best friend with Alicia for over 10 years (wow!) and I can probably count on one hand the times I have seen her cry, one of them being the day I told her I was pregnant. I still remember it as if it were yesterday, we were in Winners and I kinda just blurted it out and she froze and turned to me with tears in her eyes and just hugged me (this is rare) and from that moment on I knew she loved our baby before she even knew if it was a girl or a boy. Alicia was at the hospital the day Gavin was born, and I'm sure I can speak on behalf of her and say it was love at first sight for her and Gavin. She just held him, staring at him in complete awe. This look of love continued when Alicia would make a point of driving out to our place once a week once gavin was born. She would just hold Gavin and I would be telling her a story and soon realize I was talking to myself because she was lost in awe of Gavin. Now is that love or what? It is a beautiful thing to watch true love first hand. A mother is one you can count on. Who loves you no matter what. Who is there for you whenever you need her and never lets you down. I love you mom.” The conflict for Mae is there for all to see. Rose is her mother and Mae loves her. Mae cannot imagine that her mother had anything to do with the killings committed by her serial killer father. There is something nagging Mae. It does not add up especially the way her mother acts. There is a loyalty her mother demands. It is only later that Mae finds out the stories from her siblings. With all this being said there is no actual hard evidence that Rose was involved but Mae sees her mother differently now. These are The Talking Newspaper nominated by the Rotary Club of Ironbridge, The Telford After Care Service nominated by Telford Centre Club, Citizens Advice Bureau nominated by Wrekin Rotary and the YMCA Holly Project nominated by Wellington.Mae shares her story from childhood to date in what life was like being raised by what can only be described as 2 of the most heinous barbaric people of all time.

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Choose activities with her, not you, in mind. “Think about things she might not feel up to on her own,” says Wenban-Smith. “My own mother loved trips to National Trust properties, and I’d make sure I got her to them.” Taking your mum on holiday (and not because you want her to do the childcare!) can be a great treat in a lovely setting, and underlines how much you value her. There are countless documentaries and books written about this couple - a lot of which I have watched, read and studied, but what sets this one apart is that it's written by Mae West - one of their surviving children. As soon as I saw that this was written by someone who has personally had their life directly affected by the actions of the couple, I knew that I had to read it to gain a true insight into what really went on in the lives of the Wests and those who knew them. This is a difficult book to rate. I mean, how do you read about the abuse, and the horrors that once upon a time was somebody's life? I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to have such a stigma attached to your name. For people to have written about you and discussed the inner workings of your mind and life without having ever spoken a word to you directly. To have people have a reaction to you and feel compelled to tell you their own woes based on the fact that they know some of yours. To have people make assumptions that you must have known something despite only being a child (and to put some of the onus on you for not protecting others or even preventing some of the crimes committed). To have jobs and relationships affected. All because of your surname... Mae, I mean this ... I'm not a good person and I let all you children down ...' Rose West, HM PRISON DURHAM**This book is truly moving in many ways and as much as I want to say I enjoyed it, I didn't, because it was heart-wrenching, but that's why it's a 5-star read. So much emotion and truth. It's definitely hard not to be moved by this. Now, I only know Rose as a serial killer. This is obviously different for Mae, who is the daughter of both of the accused. So for her to go from a slightly different but normal family to one plastered all over the news is going to be hard. Yet she paints this picture that she found it impossible to imagine Rose as being a murderer all the while talking about the abuse she suffered at the hands of this woman. One of which is the time when she almost witnessed the murder of her brother. I have recently read ‘Fred And Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors’ and ‘She Must Have Known: The Trial Of Rosemary West’. They both concluded that Mae West was on her mother, Rose’s, side and believed that she was not involved in any way with the murders committed by her father, Fred West. Now, 20 years later, with all the emotion from that time not hindering her perception she felt it time to write her book. You do need a little prior knowledge of the case as it is helpful, I would say, when reading this.