It’s not that I can’t move on. It’s the sound of the door closing every time my mom and dad left to go somewhere and the heavy feeling in my chest that would follow because my half-brother would take his pain out on me. I developed empathy before I turned 6. He is probably hurting inside. All I could formulate at the time was that daddy would hit mommy …
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