Family Drama · fiction
The Note Beneath Thanksgiving
For most of my life, my family had one convenient story about me. I was the strong one. It sounded like a compliment when I was young. It took me years to understand that it was actually permission to neglect me. My name is Claire Bennett, and I grew up in a quiet suburb outside Columbus, Ohio, in a house where my younger...
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- Family Drama
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- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
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- fiction
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- My Life Story Editorial
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