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Part 3 of three related essays on escaping domestic abuse
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Episode 113
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In 2016, I was holding a spoon over my coffee at 8 pm in my mother’s kitchen. It was a survivor from childhood, one of the original set we had with a trailing vine motif. It had to be lowered to the counter very carefully. Lower it too fast and it would make an audible ‘click…
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musical interlude
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Maybe it’s confirmation bias, the kind that comes from hanging around with other depressives. Maybe it’s intuition; not anything metaphysical, but just sharply honed pattern detection that operates on a subconscious level. Maybe it’s both, or more, or something else entirely.
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Yesterday the fine people who support Disaffected and I were talking in the members-only Discord chat server. If you’d like access, become a paid…
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the second of a three-part series on leaving an abusive family
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the first of several linked essays
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and who will sell you down the river
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Sunday, 3/19, 9 pm Eastern
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Watch party for members 3/19/23
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Little Mina is Shredder’s little adopted sister. She was the runt of the litter, and was taken from her mother too young. I didn’t do the taking, but I…
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