Life Beyond Constraints

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ones fractured, my ears

clinging to life for a month, on

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ness. They called me a worthless child, saying they could do wha

but to hold me, cry

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ns, there was a sparkling blue sea

here, will I stop getting bea

omeone will love you.

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of money at the casino, and they

pay, they would

, he look

me in a new pink dress

changed, but he was pu

me to our house, circling

ed with scrutiny,

lnerable, like an object on disp

making me feel like bugs crawling

ing. I wanted to escap

was filled with lead, m

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and in tota

d man first, promising to bring me

o me in a gentle tone, but all I

d me, tears fell from my

, looking at my fathe