If I Only Knew

If I Knew Then……..
                                    By
                                        Amy Fisher
                                                &
                                      Robbie Woliver
                                              iUniverse, Inc.
                                                Lincoln, NE
                                                    (2004)







                                                                                                               
          Thinking back and remembering the 90’s, I was a good girl, a teen as to say. I was ready to graduate high school, and I was thinking about going to college. I had a boyfriend at the time like many other teenage girls my age; he was within my age range, and he never tried to convince me to do anything wrong or anything that would get me into trouble. I even had problems back home while growing up, but I turned out just fine, so what is it that draws a teenage girl to an older man? What is it that makes a teenage girl try to commit murder for a grown man? “Joey Buttafuoco".
          Amy Fisher was the only child growing up in a household; her parents were Rose and Elliott Fisher. She was born August 21, 1974 and raised in a community in Long Island, New York which appeared too had been a nice community. Amy discussed in the book how they had moved so many times that she could not get used to her friends or schools. She claimed to not had any attention coming from her parents because most of the time they were not home due to working hard. When she was almost 13 years old, she became a latchkey kid. One summer when she went on a teen tour throughout the East Coast when she returned home she learned that her parents had moved. As she became older her mother spoiled her with expensive clothes, sports car, and teen tours. She was 16 years old with a $20,000 sports car. Amy claimed even though her mother did everything for her, she never... [continues]

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