Sara hated coming home. Washing dishes, she listened intently to her step-dad's poker game out in the hall, waiting to see who was willing to buy an "hour with the beer slut" next . She hated to think of what people in the Women's Studies program would sa
Your step dad was never kind to you. And there was nothing much you could do. When he started taking an interest in your sister, you couldn't defend her. Those long weekends with your mom away, she now took the blunt of his abuse. She was trying to protec