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“Do I want to remember a life with an addict who knocked me up and almost killed me?” Before today, I didn’t. But now? Ignorance can’t protect me, and clinging to it out of fear is no way to live.

“Don’t be so hard on yourself.” She gives me the sympathetic head tilt everyone has used on me since I woke up. The one I’ve come to hate. “Abusers tend to hide their true colors until it’s too late