If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

by Gregg Olsen

I loved my mother because I didn’t know I had a choice. I had to love her.”

Less of the worst was better than more.

The manipulation and fear! So sad.

Investigators, however, understood that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare.

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Victims of abuse can still love the monster. This ambivalent loyalty might just be the predator’s ultimate form of damage.

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