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Author Smith, Adrian McNally, 1961- author.

Title Finding forgiveness / Adrian McNally Smith
Published Charlottetown, PEI : Acorn Press, 2017

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Contents PostscriptEulogy for my Father; Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Bibliography
Summary "Adrian Smith was raised in what seemed to be a very traditional, Roman Catholic upbringing. His father, Adrian Smith Sr, was very religious. He had studied to be a priest and left the seminary only 6 months before his ordination. After he left the seminary, Adrian Sr then worked for 30 years as a child psychologist for PEI's Department of Education. He died at the age of 58 from a brain tumor. A week later after his death, Adrian Jr discovered that his father had been living a lie and that he was homosexual; he had kept it hidden his whole life. Adrian kept his father's sexuality a secret until his mother died. At that time, he decided to make a conscious effort to face his and his father's story. Because of his father's stature in the community, he ended up having travel away from PEI to get counselling to help him get over the lies of his past. He was finally making progress when allegations of sexual abuse against my father surfaced. The book details a son's experience coming to terms with the secrecy and betrayal. But it is also a story of redemption as after years of hard work Smith could finally find forgiveness."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Smith, Adrian McNally, 1961-
Children of gay parents -- Prince Edward Island -- Biography
Fathers and sons -- Prince Edward Island -- Biography
Betrayal.
Forgiveness.
Betrayal
Children of gay parents
Fathers and sons
Forgiveness
SUBJECT Prince Edward Island -- Biography
Subject Prince Edward Island
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781927502822
1927502829