I remember a little girl. A girl who would pretend to be sleeping while her drunken mom would assault her with awful verbal abuse. “Wake up you little bitch. Get the f*ck out of my house, “ her mom would say. I remember how strong she was. Lying under her blankets remaining silent. Choking back the tears, not from fear, but sadness. Hoping that this night her mom would finish her verbal attack and pass out, but it rarely ended that way. Instead, that little girl's mother woul
