Children of abusive parents might grow into rebels, or they might become escape artists. I have never been an overt rebel, but I have honed my craft as an escape artist all my life. “That need only children of abusive parents know,” I said to my husband. “The need to keep one thing to yourself and making sure no one can take it away from you. You have it, I have it, but our children didn’t have it. If they had had that, they might not have chosen suicide.” “But how much more they’d have suffered,” my husband said. “And we didn’t want them to suffer.” “No,” I agreed. And yet they still
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