Punching Bag

I grew up as an object of ridicule and scorn to the male members of my family. ��I am still not at a place of perfect understanding for the reasons behind this, and it has taken a lifetime to come to the realization that there is a good possibility that I am not, in spite of what they have led me to believe, worthless.

My brother and I are estranged. ��If you asked him why (if he even admitted there was a problem), he would probably suggest it had something to do with the events surrounding th...