Switched at Birth

Margaret Elaine Elgin ?had more emotions to get out? in her latest book of poetrySwitched at Birth. She writes about her real-life anguish of being abused as a child and how she survived. A week after I was born, in Germany, a couple came up and kidnapped me. And they are emotionally abusive. Don?t look at me that way! I don?t know what they are going to do to me! I am embarrassed. Trapped, innocent and unnerved, in a spider?s web. Lost and told that I am useless, nobody. A failure. It?s not my fault. I love you. Ah, the joy of a quiet life With no strife. Author Bio: Margaret Elaine Elgin suffered a recent stroke but finds refuge in writing. She has been a poet since early childhood. Originally from Los Angeles, she now lives in the Vallejo area of Oakland, California.