At my family’s housewarming party, my own sister accused me of stealing $10,000 from her wedding gift. When I exposed her lie, my mother, in a rage, grabbed a baseball bat and smashed it over my head and my child’s. In pain, I banged my head against the wall but still tried to hug my three-year-old daughter. I forgot all the pain when I saw her condition — and stood there in shock, because my innocent little girl…
The evening was warm, and the sound of clinking glasses echoed across our new backyard in Denver, Colorado. It was supposed to be a perfect housewarming […]