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We say, “It wasn’t that bad. It was all my fault. I’m making all this stuff up. “All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother’s treatment of me as a child.Friends asked, “What did she do to you?“ I couldn’t really describe it, and in frustration would say, “Well, she didn’t lock us up in closets.” in fact, my mother behaved much worse than that, but by focusing on the empty closet, I avoided looking at what waited beyond it.
