“You’re going to take everything I give you, then you’re going to curl up and sleep knowing that someone gives a shit and that you are deserving of feeling loved and cherished. Is that understood?” I meet her eyes, not really knowing what to think. “I fucking love you,” she says when I’m still staring at her moments later. “I don’t care if you think I’m too young and stupid and impressionable to have those feelings, Cy — I have them. I don’t care that you think nobody sees all that you do for this family — I see it. I see the way your father is, and I know how it must have been. I see the way
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