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‘But Mr. Fred taught me something: how to disconnect. How to disappear in plain sight while I was being screamed at. I can’t hear him because I’m not here, I’d tell myself, standing there, blank-faced. He’s so stupid, he doesn’t even know I’m gone. It was a survival skill I used later on, with my own abusive husbands.’

--Bonnie Forshaw, incarcerated: 45 years without parole
--taken from COULDN'T KEEP IT TO MYSELF:Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution