His cruelty was the weather of my childhood, a storm that never moved on. I learned early not to expect warmth, only the cold discipline of his silence. Still, I stayed when his body failed, lifting him, feeding him, bathing hands that once slammed doors. I left his funeral with nothing but exhaustion and old ghosts, convinced my care had dissolv… Continues…
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