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“Be gentle with yourself. You were a kid. Children think their environment is normal because it is all they’ve known. It’s easy to look back and recognize all the ways things weren’t right. All the cruel actions, the manipulation, and the apathy. When you’re a kid, you’re in it. You couldn’t have known better.”

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Book:Rebel Hearts
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