The Strength They Never Saw — Until It Was Too Late

Weeks passed in silence.

Then the phone rang.

“You embarrassed us,” my mother said.

“You owe us an apology,” my father snapped.

I didn’t yell.

I simply said,

“I love you. But I won’t lie for you anymore.”

And I hung up.

I cried that night—not from guilt, but from release.
It felt like breathing again after holding it in too long.

They Tried to Erase Me

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