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For weeks, my 15-year-old daughter Kayla suffered from constant nausea and stomach pain, hiding inside her oversized hoodie and flinching at every touch. I knew something was horribly wrong, but the doctors kept brushing it off as teenage stress. Then, while washing her laundry, I found a hidden pocket inside her jacket , my blood boiling, and that night, I walked into the faculty dinner holding a baseball bat…

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my sweater. “I’m so sorry, Mom.”

“You did nothing wrong,” I swore to her, rocking her fiercely. “You hear me? You are safe.”

Dr. Cole knelt beside the table. “Because of her age, protocol requires me to bring in a social worker to speak with her. Just to ensure she is safe.”

Safe. The word felt like a mockery.

Within twenty minutes, a woman named Megan continue reading …

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