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This is the raw, brutally honest memoir of a young man who grew up in one of the harshest corners of Eastern Europe — a world filled with cheap vodka, poverty, street fights, broken families, cold rooms, and colder people.What if violence was normal, alcohol was survival, and every day felt like a fight you might not win?A world where nobody smiled,nobody believed,and nobody expected to escape.Roman Kartasheuski was not supposed to succeed.He wasn’t born with money, privilege, or stability.He wasn’t protected.He had no “safe childhood.”He had only survival.But he refused to stay where life tried to keep him.Through violence, betrayal, addiction to computer games, bullying, humiliat...

A coming-of-age memoir set against the backdrop of isolation and extreme belief. A bit of cult intrigue, abuse survival, and an unlikely love story.Can’t You Just Get Over It is set in the southeastern Colorado prairie in a fundamentalist religious cult called The Assembly of YHWHHOSHUA. It is an intimate journey into key, pivotal moments in the author's life as the first child to be born into and to grow up as a fully committed member. As a teenager, she rejected the entire belief system and decided to leave. On her way out, she married, and the pastor declared that anyone who attended the wedding would be “cut off.” Consequently, nearly half the congregation also left with her, trigg...