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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave crawling up into daddy's lapwhen dad was stillDADDYnodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heartLISTENINGto the thump...thumpsomewhere beneath muscleand breastbone I remember his armstheir sublimeENCIRCLINGand the shawdow of his voice

crawling up into daddy’s lapwhen dad was stillDADDYnodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heartLISTENINGto the thump…thumpsomewhere beneath muscleand breastbone I remember his armstheir sublimeENCIRCLINGand the shawdow of his voice”I love you, little girl.Put away your bad dreams.Daddy’s here”I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that cameHOMEfrom work everyday and insteadof picking me up, chased me farfaraway

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I Want to ShoutLeave me alone!What's wrong with you?Don't you remember who I am? Who you are?This is not a father's love! I want to scream, Can't you see what you are doing to me? What you've done to me? What you've made of me? I want to cry out, I am your little girl. I am not your girlfriend. I am not your whore. I am not my fucking mother! But he is on top of me and my shout is silenced. He is inside of me and my scream stays there too. He is finished. And I don't cry out, but I do cry a bucket of silent tears. He slithers away and at last, I quietly sob
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Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister, I suppose.
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What I don't like is what it sometimes takes to win. Backstabbing. Manipulation. Out-and-out bribery once in a while, and not always the monetary kind.
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...I know there's no such thing as forever. So what can we be, in the now?
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Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
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Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
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