Reprise /rəˈprēz,rəˈprīz/ : noun 1: a repeated passage in music. 2: a recurrence, renewal, or resumption of an action.
"I'm so sorry you had to go through all that. That's so horrible."
I laugh and shrug, "Yah, it's a bit fucked up."
"You know... you do that a lot. Minimizing it. You laugh and say it's a bit fucked up. I think it's your way of coping. It's a crutch so you don't have to acknowledge how absolutely horrible your life has been. If you can push it off with a laugh, with a 'it's a bit fucked up' you don't actually have to process it and what it has done to you."
My face falls, "Oh."
Oh no.
What do you do when the one thing you had to keep your past from crushing you under it's weight has been removed?
You either survive or you die.
YOU ARE READING
Daddy's Favourite: An Autobiographical Memoir Of Childhood Abuse
Non-FictionIt's hard to be the favourite of a man who turns into a monster. An autobiography about my abusive childhood and how it affects me to this day.
