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"It wasn’t that Silas wouldn’t take me in, he would, He’d been doing that since I was eight, but always temporarily. A few weeks, maybe a month or two, that’s how long I’d last before giving in to my father’s pull. And then there was always Jeannie’s push. She’s Silas’s wife and she wants me around about as much as my mother does."

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Heather Lewis, House Rules

There is something so unbearable about Lewis’s writing.  This paragraph just bowls me down – the fact that there are no adults that Lee can trust, particularly no women, since they are always suspicious of her, as a sexualized child.  And this is only four pages in.