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Chapter Twenty Three
Without fail, every day at 7:45 a.m., just as we exited the off ramp and drove onto Wadsworth boulevard my body seized with pain. I never made a noise, but I’d slowly heave myself up and over, lean...
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Chapter Twenty Four
“Okay, you ready?” My father stood on the grass, just inches from the fresh cement out back behind the house. He rubbed his hands together, as if he were about to throw out a pitch for a baseball...
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Chapter Twenty Five
The rituals at school had slowly and inevitably become painful. We knew who had the lowest fat grams by now, we knew who had the most stretch marks – me, we knew who had the cutest boyfriend, and who...
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Chapter Twenty Six
“There’s a manila envelope on the kitchen counter for you,” Dad said from his computer room. I flopped my back pack down on the front landing, and picked the heavy envelope up. It was from Rebecca....
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Chapter Twenty Seven
Halfway through my letter I was telling my baby that I didn’t understand why my dad hadn’t even mentioned buying a crib or a car seat, or even my mother for that matter, though I hadn’t seen her in...
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Chapter Twenty Eight
“Someone’s at the door for you Tess!” My father called out as he walked back into his room. Pulling myself up off the bed, I knew I smelled and looked horrid. I hadn’t showered in a week, couldn’t...
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Chapter Twenty Nine
The four days in between the courtroom and now seem lost, run off into a place filled with memories too hard to be real. My father wasn’t able to come with me today. It would be the first time I’d...
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Chapter Thirty
I longed to have the option of just taking up my things and heading out. The thought of the open roads and joy at the end of the journey seemed like storybook tales from times long ago, instead of...
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Chapter Thirty One
After my father married Carol, six months later, there was no catching me. I fell so deeply down into the rabbit’s hole that even I was getting high off the ride. I had given up so completely that I...
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Chapter Thirty Two
At first it was just a game. We thought we felt like grownups, Josh taking care of me and feeding me, letting me wear his clothes, and our getting hotel rooms even though we were old enough. When his...
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Chapter One
“But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death … for the man found...
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Chapter Two
“My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes. My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away. Those who seek my life set their...
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Chapter Three
“The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished. He punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and...
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Chapter Four
“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb? Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed? For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep at...
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Chapter Five
“Perfect love drives out fear.” 1 John 4:18 “Why can’t he see her outside of his own pain?” My Thoughts, Tess’s...
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Chapter Six
“Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.” Romans “When a little girl screams and no one hears, the scream cannot be silenced. When a little girl bleeds and no one heals her, she wears the blood; an...
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Your Story Has the Power to Heal
In 2000 I went down into my basement and I didn’t come up for two weeks. I purged every skeleton, danced with every demon, and I went back years before and found the little girl I once was, where I...
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