this is to touch on the story below about abuse....

I so know how she feels. I was abused boh physically and emotionally by my adoptive mother....it lasted my whole life. Hitting nd tearing me down...it was her only way to cope aparently. I came from a questionable family as far as my birth mother and her "boyfriend" and I lived in foster care till I was three...I was 12 pounds at a year of age when I was finally extracted from my mothers arms....I almost died. She died when I was 6, and I never got to meet her. I was then abused till I ran away attempted suicide and ended up ina mental hospital for adolescents. She contended it was my behavior....not her eactions that did the harm. She beat me with objects then with her tounge...told me I was a stupid good for nothing fat girl with no friends and that I was a loser. I almost believed her. I was 17 and for a number of years she had been abusing my little brother who was 7 at the time. He asked me to take him away from her...he never wanted to go back (we were all adopted) I couldn't legally do it. I called dss. She kicked me out...I got away from her but abandoned my brother in the mean time...and my sister. It has ben that long since she has even spoken to me. I wrote her to bury the hatchett. She hasn't respoded and won't. I have now finally figured out that the hoffmans were never ment to be in my life. they don't want me, and I have come to ralize it. Now it is time to move on..but it has been so hard. I still miss them especially my brother, whom according to sur5r is happy, now 15. and My sister now 20. I just hope one day they can put it behind them as my heaRT TELLS ME THEY HAVEN'T EITHER...any suggestions?? Crystal

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