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Quiet Little Mouse
By Mali Ponday
She bought a gun, shot my father once in each knee, then shot herself in the head. Mali Ponday learned of the suicide during her senior year of college. Her beautiful, loving, complicated mother died instantly. Her father survived, but Mali's own spirit had died long before. Or so she believed. Raised by a diagnosed narcissist, Mali had trouble imagining any future for herself. Like many such children, she suffered from a sense of learned helplessness, unable to trust her own gut or act on her own instincts for self-preservation no matter how hard they screamed at her.
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