I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time Joe Peters
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When the characters in the book The Lovely Bones said that they were the only two people who had ever lived with someone else, I immediately thought of my brother. When I was young, my brother and I were the only ones in our family who had lived with someone else. We grew up believing that life didn't have to be this terrifying and painful all the time. We didn't understand what was happening to us at home, but we would have done anything to stop it if we could have.

Source: Cry Silent Tears: The Heartbreaking Survival Story Of A Small Mute Boy Who Overcame Unbearable Suffering And Found His Voice Again

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