sex abuse – Page 2 – Marcos M. Villatoro

Why I’m better off living in a war zone

Three months ago I had a psychotic attack, one brought on by childhood trauma and a heavy batch of manic depression. It was horrible. My

In 1969, when I was seven, we made a trip to El Salvador for the summer. My parents had plans: they considered moving to my

I started reading to the kids when they each were in the womb. All through their childhoods, after supper, we stayed seated around the table

I was somewhere around ten or eleven years old. I was very methodical about it. It was summer. My parents were outside, working in the

As chaotic as madness is, there is a pattern to it. This latest episode, for instance: it really began in November, when we set the

My smile in the photo isn’t a lie, but an attempt. It was my idea to take the family Christmas portrait, one of those last-ditch

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