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My Mother Tells Me She May Have Been the Product of Rape

My Mother Tells Me She May Have Been the Product of Rape

She says it turns out mice have chewed around the one tree outside her apartment, and now the tree will have difficulty drinking. The landscaper called it girdling. I shudder,thinking this could explain why my grandmother never huggedmy mother. She says mice are pretty sneaky and tend to feed on bark by burrowingabove ground beneath …

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