Mom Called Me Damaged at My Sister’s Baby Shower

she looked old.

“If you keep them from me, they will ask about me someday.”

“Yes.”

“What will you tell them?”

“The truth, in language they can understand.”

“That I hurt you?”

“Yes.”

“That I was cruel?”

“Yes.”

“That you chose distance because I was unsafe?”

She swallowed.

Unsafe seemed to frighten her more than cruel.

Cruel could be dismissed as personality.

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