As a child, she could not understand why houses had doors to keep people out, and she saw nothing wrong with befriending every person she met. As a young adult this lack of filters had profound consequences. Her innocent trust was frequently exploited by those she befriended, and she felt no fear even when near grave danger.
As the years went by it became obvious that Dolly had hidden disabilities. These disabilities skewed her judgment and altered how she processed her world. Her life’s journey took her down a very rocky path and from outward appearances she was just another wasted life ending up in drug addiction. But the paradox was that inside, Dolly had an astonishing purity, an unstoppable heart of love and faith. Her parents spent 29 years and tens of thousands of dollars on therapies and crisis interventions. The last years were consumed in the fight to keep her alive.
“Your perception of people who are “a little different” will not be the same after you meet Dolly, the girl with a damaged compass. This is a must-read for everyone who wants to understand why some people do the things they do.” – Carolyn Warren, author
“God used Dolly where she was, to reach me and banish my cynicism and correct my judgmental self.” — Bo Cooke, former drug and alcohol counselor, current operations director for Gamma Knife of Spokane
April Fauske lives with David, her husband of 36 years, in Colbert, Washington. She continues to learn how to live more fully through loss and to love with abandon as Dolly did.