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A child's search for love, that never came the way they needed it. For as long as...

Maria grew up in what appeared, from the outside, to be a normal suburban home. Her father...

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I used to think my father’s anger was normal. That all fathers yelled, that all little girls...

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My brother stole my childhood. He stole my sense of safety, my trust, my ability to feel...

I learned early that the world wasn’t kind to kids like me. Too quiet, too awkward, too...

I never set out to destroy myself. It started small—a few drinks to numb the edges, a...