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284: What if you found the antidote in the venom?

This Is Actually Happening

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My Mom's Upbringing Was Difficult

Both of my parents grew up in the Middle East. They had such a volatile marriage and the volatility was clearly one-ended. My earliest recollection of being around my parents is pretty much them fighting. In primary school, mornings were very difficult for me because I found it really difficult to finish my breakfast. She would sit me in the kitchen and she would just watch me drink or eat. And if I didn't do it at a pace that she was happy with, she would immediately start screaming at me. That's when the cane came out. I remember she beat me so hard that this cane broke on my back. The thing that is kind of upsetting is to know that my mom potentially

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