“It hit me for the first time when I went down to that library. All those children, keeping their mouths shut. I can’t do it anymore. I’m tired of hiding and feeling dirty. I take three baths a day and still feel dirty. It doesn’t go away. Lately, I feel as if every memory I don’t have up here is boiling to the surface; as if it’s close enough to touch. If I dared. I’m telling myself that I dare. My mother warned us as children, my half brother and half sisters and me, not ever to discuss family business.” “Secrecy,” he said, “is incest’s biggest friend. But I want you to be sure before you
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