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A Safe Place Celebrates
27 Years of Service
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. A Safe Place’s 27th Annual Dinner will take place on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the Lincolnshire Marriott Resort. The keynote speaker will be Janine Latus, author of If I Am Missing or Dead. In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. "Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved," it read, "but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me..."
That same spring Janine Latus was struggling to leave her marriage -- a marriage to a handsome and successful man. A marriage others emulated. A marriage in which she felt she could do nothing right and everything wrong. A marriage in which she felt afraid, controlled, inadequate and trapped.
If I Am Missing or Dead is a heart-wrenching journey of discovery as Janine Latus traces the roots of her own -- and her sister's -- victimization with unflinching candor. At once a confession, a call to break the cycle of abuse, and a deeply felt love letter to her baby sister, Amy Lynne Latus, If I Am Missing or Dead is an unforgettable read.
Janine Latus is a freelance writer, radio commentator, and regular speaker on domestic abuse issues. She has also taught writing and journalism at several universities and is on the board of directors of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She lives in Virginia. If I Am Missing or Dead is her first book.
Tickets for this event begin at $75 per person. Tables of ten range from $750 - $10,000. For more information call Noelle Moore at 847-731-7165 x109 or click here to send an email.
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