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MOM, THE MONSTER

HE WAS sitting in his lounge one afternoon when his teenage daughter came up to him and said, “Daddy I can’t keep it in anymore.”

He didn’t know what to expect but recalls light-heartedly replying, “Okay, if you can’t hold it in, just let it out.”

His daughter smiled sadly then shared the shocking news that turned his world upside down: her mother had forced her to watch as she performed sexual acts with her new husband, his child told him, and she couldn’t keep it a secret any longer.

But that wasn’t the end of the devastating revelations. His teenage son then also shared that his mom had tried to rape him.

Daniel* from Nelson Mandela

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