When a freak accident saw his father burn to death in front of him, Joe was left at the mercy of his mother. I (his mum) am going through a depression/anxiety episode which I now very much keep away from him but I am sure this is related.

Between the ages of 5/6- 8/9, my sadistic narcissistic step-father and his father at first forced me to have sex with them and other men in my step-father’s bedroom. I couldn’t risk breaking her heart, especially after living through 2020 as an only child in a home with just two adults who took quarantining very seriously. Why: my dd is getting married this summer and I'm trying to read all of the interesting books on her shelf before she cleans out her possessions and moves far away. I'm 4 years NC and in a really great life with a wonderful DH now but the last week's been rough (job, pet illness) and some silent tears have been shed and made me think of that childhood legacy. In the aftermath of such a traumatic event, the police will ask to collect DNA evidence from your body, a process that can take four to six hou.

I just hope that whatever is happening inside your son is not as distressing as it appears on the outside - perhaps he is genuinely not feeling upset but it is a strange biological response to emotion - does it happen a lot when he's been laughing?

I have 11 pages left in Fast Food Nation - I thought I should learn more about fast food business but actually learned more about agribusiness and am thinking I may switch what I am eating. If you’re not out enjoying the weather, or watching some football, there’s plenty of good stuff to read and think about. Of course, I know it is, but I suppose I have lived a very sheltered and charmed life (in comparison) and I don’t have the capacity to understand how people can be so evil; so, appallingly, unfathomably evil.I'm the girl who goes into the bathroom to cry the tears I've held back for so long and then walk out like nothing ever happened. Half way through the the book i couldn't read anymore because of how truely heartwrenching and depressing it was, that i had to put it down and i ended up putting it off and avoiding it for about three weeks. The book ends abruptly in adolescence, pointing the way to the second book which he is currently writing.

More immediately, I read it because my husband had to work late yesterday, so I took the boys to meet their friends in Havelock and after I dropped them off I went to the library (because I don't often go to that branch) and the first book in her Harper Connelly series was checked in and on the shelf. So, I wiped my face, walked into the house only to be greeted by my husband and to start crying again. However i felt that i owed it to the author- who is an extremly couragous, brave, admirable person for sharing this truth with us that i read it.I thought it was well written, but one of the most disturbing true stories I have read in a long time.