A Quirky Relative

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tomach, and my back s

I hadn't gotten pregnant a

to imagine how much my mom had endured in silenc

my bed, my mom rubbing

his workbook, I might never have known the ha

d it apart. "Mom

got your exams soon, and your brother's still young. Son

om her eye and limp

ve, I buried myself

To outsiders, my mom didn't look like a victim of ab

suffered filled me with guilt, b

y dream of studying medici

brother out to finish our homewor

help my mom te

niversity, my dream school, and found K

in prison and helped m

r away from that city to live in Grandma's tow