Family Secrets
Family Drama · fiction

The Note Beneath Thanksgiving

For most of my life, my family had one convenient story about me. I was the strong one. It sounded like a compliment when I was young. It took me years to understand that it was actually permission to neglect me. My name is Claire Bennett, and I grew up in a quiet suburb outside Columbus, Ohio, in a house where my younger...

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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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