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32. thank you

I'd like to add that I grew up in a wealthy, intellectual and decidedly non-religious family and had a similar experience. What's more, 3 our of the 4 of us children were sent to therapists as kids and teens- not that we EVER would have told or been believed. In fact, years later, I got hold of some notes from a therapist and in an interview with my parents about me, my mother told a story about my father banging my head into a wall over a poor report card, (I still have the scar) and all my father talked about was how beautiful I was and what a great body I had. My mother said that all the problems in their marriage were because of me and that I had tried to "wrack, ruin and destroy" her family since the age of 8. There's more, but I'll leave it at that. And the therapist? She gushed about how successful and attractive my father was and how well dressed my mother was.

It doesn't just happen in Dugger like families.