James “Knockout Jimmy” O’Brien, Granite Fall’s very own boxing legend—a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear “for protection.”
My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.
Stichwörter: young-adult issues abuse new-adult
Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill.
It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.
Stichwörter: young-adult issues abuse new-adult
I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.
Katie DavisStichwörter: love christianity christian-living christians missionary abuse mission-statement neglected
Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.
Jonathan Anthony BurkettStichwörter: love faith book mother life-lessons inspirational-life quotes nonfiction christ bestseller miami abuse inspirational-success-failure quotes-on-life jonathan-anthony-burkett neglected-but-undefeated
Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.
Jonathan Anthony BurkettStichwörter: inspirational-quotes parenting parenthood treatment kids abuse mistreatment beating jonathan-anthony-burkett neglected-but-undefeated bad-parenting lesson-in-life
... Other students lived on campus and got drunk at parties. Other students dated and graduated and got married and led normal lives. She wanted to marry an ex-con and pretend being kidnapped had been a normal thing she could forget about. ...
Michelle D. ArgyleStichwörter: abuse kidnapped stockholm-syndrome neglected
I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.
JenniferElizabeth AustinStichwörter: inspirational self-help abuse
The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
Veronica RothStichwörter: revenge retribution abuse
My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.
Michka AssayasHaymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital."
I assumed Johanna was fine, had passed her exam, but simply wasn't assigned to a sharp shooters' unit. She's wicked with a throwing axe but about average with a gun. "Is she hurt? What happened?"
"It was while she was on the Block. They try to ferret out a soldier's potential weakness. So they flooded the street, " says Haymitch.
This doesn't help. Johanna can swim. At least, I seem to remember her swimming around some in the Quarter Quell. Not like Finnick, of course, but none of us are like Finnick. "So?"
"That's how they tortured her in the Capitol. Soaked her then used electric shocks," says Haymitch. "In the Block, she had some kind of flashback. Panicked, didn't know where she was. She's back under sedation."
Finnick and I just stand there as if we've lost the ability to respond.
I think of the way Johanna never showers. How she forced herself into the rain like it was acid that day. I had attributed her misery to morphling withdrawal.
"You two should go see her. You're as close to friends as she's got," says Haymitch.
That makes the whole thing worse. I don't really know what's between Johanna and Finnick, but I hardly know her. No family. No friends.Not so much as a token from District 7 to set beside her regulation clothes in her anonymous drawer.
Nothing.
Stichwörter: loss isolation torture mental-illness abuse phobia haymitch phobias fear-of-water johnaa pstd
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