When I got pregnant at 19, my dad screamed, ‘You’re ruining this family!’ and threw me out. I said, ‘If I tell you who the father is, it’ll ruin more than just this family.’ Ten years later, I returned — and the truth shattered everything.
The gravel of the driveway crunched under my tires, a sound that triggered a decade-old nausea deep in my gut. The house loomed
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