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2naSalit

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4. I remember well...
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 04:43 PM
11 hrs ago

And my mom did leave, after a couple years of threats to kill her during the beatings. She finally left all 5 of us left at home, 3 in diapers. Guess who became the house slave for the next seven years until I found my mom and managed to help her kidnap us and take us away from my dad, which we did. I have many scars, some only forgotten because they are covered over with other scars.

I got married in my mid 20s, that was over in a couple years when he became physically violent while drunk. He got drunk a lot after we got married. Wasn't sticking around to watch my life become that of my parents.

Been a lot of rough road but somehow I've made it decades longer than I expected.

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