By Lucinda Ruh
Frozen Teardrop is the autobiographical account of 1 of the main liked and debatable personalities within the heritage of determine skating. during this straight-forward memoir, Lucinda Ruh takes her readers during the harsh and painful realities of the figure-skating global whereas exposing the never-before-released information of her personal deepest discomfort and pain which might eventually flip this Guinness-listed overseas icon right into a bed-ridden, suicidal, starved, agoraphobic and terrified younger lady. Frozen Teardrop is a true-life story of attractiveness, refinement, genius, and talent contrasted opposed to the cut-throat starkness of worldwide figure-skating festival in its bleakest, so much tortuous, so much mind-warping moments--as obvious throughout the eyes of a constructing younger prodigy whose own existence could harbor its personal menagerie of horrors, secrets and techniques, and private violations.
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