[She struggles for words. It's hard to explain, how she's always played weak when really she was strong, to seem small, to survive. Hard to tell this man who doesn't know her at all what it means to grow up with a man like her father, what it means to have to protect yourself from your own family.]
[Pressing her lips together until they're pale and white, she shakes her head.]
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[She struggles for words. It's hard to explain, how she's always played weak when really she was strong, to seem small, to survive. Hard to tell this man who doesn't know her at all what it means to grow up with a man like her father, what it means to have to protect yourself from your own family.]
[Pressing her lips together until they're pale and white, she shakes her head.]
I mean I'm learning. That's what I mean.