Dying in the Shadows of Toxic Parents

When I was three, my parents cheated on each other over a petty misunderstanding. From that moment on, they became the most notoriously toxic couple in our social circle.

To get back at one another, they hurt me without hesitation, using my pain as a weapon to wound each other.

Over the next five years, my mother broke my bones three separate times. My father deliberately abandoned me in crowded streets five times, and once, during a screaming match, they even threw me into the ocean.

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