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Scraping away the dirt from a secret doesn’t always set you free. Sometimes it’s the very opposite.
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plays in my mind all the time, Mom. So don’t tell me that it was a long time ago. Time doesn’t erase what happened.”
My family should have opened a mini-storage. Compartmentalizing things has always been our superpower.
The young men emerging from the shop are all smiles. The older women, not so much. Hospitals are the bookends of all of our lives.
“She was accused of the same thing in Oregon. Beat the charge. Changed her name. But lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place . . . and definitely not three times!”
The truth is surviving childhood trauma isn’t the same thing as living.”
It isn’t Prada that the devil wears but a smile that belies the truth of his intent.
What if the worst thing you ever did was something you didn’t do?
“Only a victim knows the lasting damage of what these men do. People will mouth words saying that they care, and on some level, they might. Who wouldn’t agree that molestation or rape is among the vilest things one human can do to another? In the end, the only ones who really know are those who have experienced it.”
Whatever happens inside the walls of our home is solely our concern, she’d said more than once. No one else’s business. We live and deal with our own shame. Telling a stranger your business only gives them power to hurt you even more.
