Summary

" The Ted Bundy Fan Club" -- Gildiner describes Alana, her next hero, as being a person who “shows what the mind is capable of enduring while still remaining intact” (203).

During Alana’s first session with Gildiner, Alana was so scared that Gildiner feared she would pass out. Alana said when she was three years old, her father, Art, had planted heroin in her mother’s pockets so that he could get sole custody of Alana and her younger sister, Gretchen. In reality, Art was a drug and alcohol addict who sexually, mentally, and emotionally abused Alana. He began raping Alana when she was four. The rapes continued for 10 years. Alana said the worst part was trying to pretend she enjoyed having sex with Art. He had warned her that if she did not enjoy it, he...