Ari
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It was Christmas, or sorry, Thanksgiving.
She drags me to the bathroom and puts my head under the water.
And she was like, if you want to act like a fucking liar, you don't deserve to have straight hair.
For me, the straight hair was not, like, I understand what she was doing in the moment.
Now looking back as an adult, it's like, what were you doing?
And that whole night, she was just yelling, going crazy, flipping out.
And that was the first night I ran away.
the girl whose phone I used.
I ended up at her house and her mom is amazing.
And her mom is a nurturer.
But at the end of the day, she's a mom.
And I think she understands moms.
So she wasn't gonna harbor me.
So my mom ended up picking me up and we drove to the police station because I said, I'm done.
I want nothing to do with you.
And at that point she was saying everything back.