Every time I stood in my living room, staring at down at my feet gripped in the shag carpeting, I listened to my mother or father shouting at me with one ear. And the other part of my brain kept chanting, “’Surely this will end soon. This has to end soon.”
It didn’t end for a long time.
In the middle of my sixth-grade year — the horribly boring year wit…
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