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Regina Calcaterra · 2013
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What this book knows
Five siblings survive a violently neglectful mother by clinging to each other, until telling the truth costs them the only family they have.
trauma-and-survival
She whips me… and whips me… then ties my hands together, binds my ankles, wraps my wrists around the closet rod.
ES-002Cookie convinced them we brought the bruises on ourselves; then the cycle would start all over again in a different house, under different names.
ES-008belonging
We're separated again, and it's because of me. We've sharpened our instincts and it's kept us together for six solid years.
ES-003Rosie was suffering from Failure to Thrive—emotionally too upset about being separated from her family to absorb nutrition.
ES-009shame
'You're only nine—that's too young to touch yourself down there. It's a dirty thing for a little girl to do.'
ES-004'Stop lying for their sakes and tell me what has been happening here.' What if I did tell you? What would happen to the kids?
ES-00515 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience
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