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When I was 7 months pregnant, my innocent six-year-old daughter exposed my sister-in-law’s theft during my baby shower after catching her stealing money from the gift envelopes. Furious, my sister-in-law grabbed a heavy lamp and st/r/u/c/k my daughter on the head with full force, screaming, “How dare you accuse me?” My daughter stumbled back, hitting the wall hard and collapsed, bleeding. Unfortunately,…

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she’s stolen over the years.

Ruby woke up screaming that night, the first of many nightmares. She dreamed that Natalie was chasing her with a lamp, that Grandma Patricia was yelling at her, that she was bleeding and no one would help. I held her while she sobbed, feeling completely helpless. My six-year-old daughter was traumatized, and all I could continue reading …

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