Though I love my parents and it made a lot of sense that they would want to protect and care for their child, I couldn’t help but think about the lengths that Pops had gone to in order to guard Josh’s privacy and keep him from being publicly humiliated. I mentioned this to Derick, and he said that he had noticed the same thing. The feelings grew stronger within me, and by the time I went to bed I felt sick to my core. When the In Touch story broke, all I had wanted was to be protected. All I’d wanted was to have privacy and space to grieve without feeling the weight upon myself to fix the
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