Cat's After Dark

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach 7 years of secrets and silence and pent up emotions. 7 years of alienation from family, friends and peers because of the deep secrets she was told to keep. Big changes happening, Jr High School, A changing body, raging hormones and more [...]

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For almost 38 years I have kept my secrets, maintained the wall of silence for the benefit of everyone else in the family. I had a friend suggest today that I shouldn’t be doing this, that I might hurt someone else by telling my secrets. I might shatter their illusions of the man my grandfather [...]

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