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redictable rages, bewilderin
video shattered
concerned about my endle
phone, and their faces twi
andfather rasped, their eyes
burst in during another savage
him that same video, his anger dra
ld her, echoing my grand
turned cold and distant after viewing it, j
ld imp
t hope, had turned on me, con
that warped their love into icy rejection, ma
this betrayal a prelude to
erything, stealing my mother's pho
, undeniable horror: my "kind" father, the respect
er's "abuse" as a devastating, desperate shield, a terrifying