How Kind Strangers Positively Impacted My Childhood Traumas

Remembering them helped me re-process neglect, abuse, and abandonment

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When I was a young teen, a sequence of life-altering events occurred. My father, an evangelical pastor of a fundamentalist, cult-like church, retired from that role and then my mother divorced him. Two years after, she moved states away, leaving my…