Recollecting pieces from the past

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Like many people I had a traumatic childhood. Many of had an alcoholic parent. My father was an alcoholic and he was also very manipulative. Nobody knew or suspected how he was at home — he was violent in every way. He was funny when he was not drunk, probably that’s how he fooled so many people. The opinion others had about him (including strangers) was very important. He kicked me out of the house when I was 18, after a month of…