Julia Hoffner

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“To Become a Man” by Julia Hoffner

Submitted to Contest #215

To Become a Man I can vividly remember the sight of his crimson face, engorged with rage in front of my own, meek, and pale. ‘Be a man!’ he screamed, as my mother tried to pull him off me, struggling against his heavy frame. As a child of only eight years old, these are the moments that last. The ones that fundamentally shape you into who you become. Sometimes I try to convince myself that I had a normal upbringing and I even let myself begin to feel a touch of sentimentality – there had been good times, hadn’t there? I had felt loved, h...

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