Linda Atwell is the author of a new book, Loving Lindsey: Raising a Daughter with Special Needs, a memoir published by She Writes Press.
Linda Atwell and her strong-willed daughter, Lindsey — a high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities — have always had a complicated relationship. As Lindsey plunges into adulthood, she experiments with sex, considers a tubal ligation, and at twenty quits Goodwill and runs away with Emmett, a man more than twice her age. As Lindsey grows closer to Emmett, she slips further away from her family — but Linda, determined to save her daughter, refuses to give up.
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