All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
("She's Come Undone")
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Eventually, I reached the other side of the chasm and understood the differences between the two men. I no longer hated Daddy: he had been a shitty father and a shitty husband - a man who's made two bad choices based on lust and coveting and then been too weak either to live with them or undo them. But he had not been a rapist.
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