domesticated; through my eyes.
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Last published Sat, Jul 5, 2014
This story unravels to show an outsider looking in, viewing the traumas of domestic abuse and the effects it can have on the victim, and also other people in the environment. The outsider just happens to be a little girl called Josie.
The domestic abuse causes Josie to feel unloved, and neglected by her mother, and other people in her household. Josie clings onto the hope she has when she visits her dad, but what happens when he becomes critically ill?
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