When a person lays their heart bare, it is a profoundly discouraging sight.
Not all biological parents genuinely wish the best for their children. People come in all varieties, and parents naturally do too.
Some parents bring you into the world and raise you, but at the same time demand that you become their puppet, controlling you, using familial affection and public opinion to hold you hostage, driving you to bow your head in submission or break down in desperate resistance—and then they will turn around and cry to outsiders about how hard they have it.
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