ed, freezing in th

ttered on the floor to reach the man in the chair, who wa

n response. "Daddy, would you please sleep in your bedroom? I'm

tered, slowly raising his head to look at h

, I go to

ently closer to him. "You don't need school. You just ne

ad to be careful when he was like this. The last time they had gotten into an argument, h

okay? But I really have to get

er angrily. "You're such a

looked at the deep red skin where the outline of her father's fingers was still visible. H

e accustomed to the incomprehensible gibberish and could therefore decipher it. But almost always she wished she hadn't learned the language of drunks; she wished she could just ignore his outbursts. But they got to her. She knew her father despised her

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