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-The 6-week-old. Sounds harmless enough, but don’t forget this is just the beginning. Her father got mad at her mother, so he left the 6-week-old in it’s pumpkin seat in the parking lot of a Walmart.

-The 5-year-old. Her stepfather hit her across the face, catching her front tooth on his watch. It was broken all through kindergarten.

-The 6-year-old. Her twin sisters were born. The 6-year-old became invisible.

-The 9-year-old. He said he would come to this softball game. He promised.

-The 11-year-old. Playing Doctor was just a fun game everyone played with the girl down the street’s older cousin.

-The 12-year-old. The first bone she broke by her brother and one of his angry episodes.

-The 14-year-old. Screaming for attention, silently. Having sex for the first time, getting humiliated and riding the bus home alone.

-The 16-year-old. Her father punching her in the face breaking her 13th bone. She was so clumsy.

-The 19-year-old. She met Prince Harming and went on to write what she thought was a romance but turned out to be a thriller.

-The 28-year-old. She sat pregnant in the doctor’s office alone to terminate her baby boy.

-The 29-year-old. She moved her husband into a group home.

-The 33-year-old. Processing a lifetime of fucked up guest lists.