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I understand you’re going through a lot, we all are, but that doesn’t give you the right to speak badly of your own flesh and blood,
“Anyone who hurts children is a monster in disguise.”
“You don’t need to be scared or anything,” he was quick to assure me. “You just need to know about this stuff, so you know when to tell a grown-up.”
This girl felt sadness in her bones.
hair. “A good man shows compassion, and I’m raising you to be a good man.”
For the longest time I had programmed my heart to expect sadness. I put it down to the fact that I had an unsettled mind and had learned from a young age that everything was temporary.
I was healthy. I was stable. I didn’t want to die anymore.