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... least. When I was little, everything was so perfect. But then, soon after I turned seven, something changed. He and my mother started fighting, more and more, then almost every day. And when they weren't screaming at each other, there was this cold suffocating silence all around the house. I didn't know what was happening, or why. I thought that, somehow, it was my fault. But it wasn't.'

She looked at Mickey, then at me.

'Because if what you say is true, that was the time when h ...

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