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Sometimes

"When your stepfather abused or bullied your brother, were you usually spared?"

"I don't know…..Sometimes." I watched the fists on my knees tighten, relax, tighten. "I guess."

The old guilty relief : being the one not screamed at, not yanked by the arm or whacked in the head.

 

(I Know This Much Is True - p. 273 - Wally Lamb)

 

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