Genna sapia ruffin biography of barack obama

SYNOPSIS

Born in Baltimore as Genevieve into a broken family in the '40's, I learned early to "roll with the punches". Abusive alcoholic mother, absent father, sexual molestation from siblings—now I find that maybe some things are not that extraordinary, sadly.

To me, love became equal to pain.

So when in June of 1964 I finally met David Ruffin--"the love of my life"--I didn't recognize the early signs that should have warned me that he was an abuser too. At first it was "just" verbal, emotional and psychological.

Genna sapia ruffin biography of barack obama president

But by the time our our ten-year-long relationship was coming to an unavoidable end, the abuse had escalated to include extreme violence toward both me and our son. It had reached a point of life or death. Of course, David had also added smoking crack cocaine to his earlier habits of just smoking pot and drinking.