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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019
Submitted to Contest #273
For years I have followed Victoria Donahue. She doesn't know who I am. Doesn't know that for almost half a decade I have incorporated parts of her life into my own. It all started the summer I met her ex my now husband. It was innocent curiosity. I wanted to know who his first love was, the one who got away, his first choice. he told me about her on our fourth date. While eating sushi on his couch. Victoria Donahue. Maybe it was her name, or the way he described her that piqued my interest. I can't remember the exact moment or reason anymore...
This is a work of non-fiction. That contains topics of mental health issues, sexual violence, and substance abuse. My father was always a secretive person. Everything I knew about his childhood and early life before he became a father was information that I ciphered from him like a mystic in a fairy tale. Looking for signs and clues in the scratches on stones and in the positions of stars. He was a family man who cried in church, but who would wield rage like a weapon against his wife. I was both fascinated and petrified of my father....
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