The Toxic Belief That Blood Is Everything, Family Is Everything

The toxic belief that blood is everything and family is everything, no matter what they do or what they say or how they behave, became heavily relied on as we got older. I wish I would have said something to stand up for him and to standing up for all of us, but I did what I was supposed to do. When we moved to Auburn, this is the house that will contain the most traumatic memories for me. They came upstairs busted into a room, held her at gunpoint, while they flipped her room. Once he got cash from a new client, like a Ponzi scheme, he would use that money to purchase the actual thing the previous person was still waiting for