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I’m so sorry, Cleo. That must have been very upsetting, and scary. Not to mention painful physically.

CM:

Want to know the worst part?

EB:

What’s that?

CM:

That was weeks before my mom and her whole ultimatum about me breaking up with him. I stayed with him after that. And I’m not sure I would have broken up with him even if he’d done it again. My mom was right about him all along. So why am I so mad at her still?

EB: