Forever and a Day : A Memoir of Trauma, Identity and Breaking the Cycle

Abandoned by her mother, ghosted by her father, and silenced by her grandmother, Mary Fields grew up fractured by abuse and neglect.

Forever and a Day is an unflinching memoir of survival.
From a mother who signed letters with love but left her behind, to summers with a ghostlike father at the carnival, to the cold silence of her grandmother’s house, Mary grew up in abuse, abandonment, and the failures of the foster system.
To cope, her “Protector” shielded the vulnerable “Little Mary,” leaving her fractured with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

But this isn’t just a story of trauma. It’s also about the unexpected kindnesses that helped her endure, the grief that forced her to confront the past, and the strength it takes to break cycles and become the parent she needed all along.

Forever and a Day is for anyone who’s ever felt forgotten-a reminder that even in the darkest childhoods, you are never as alone as you think.