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I sigh happily as I shut the back cover of the book. I smile to myself as I trace the leather binding. Who knew there was such beauty?!
I had a stack of books I was given by my parents but the same twenty books held me over from my childhood until I got married. Russ didn't let me sit and read after about a year. I was kept busy.
"Why do you wanna read a f*****g book?! It's a waste of time!" About the only thing he let me have was a few dusty cookbooks since my cooking "sucked."
"Educate yourself" he'd say. I roll my eyes. He's the only one who ever had issues with it.
I'm mad for letting myself be taken advantage of for as long as I was. I let myself be humiliated for far too long.
As much damage that Russ had done, I had never felt any type of anger towards him.
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