Liliana

I was like, oh my gosh, it was heaven.

I got to...

sleep in my mom's bed with her, which was something like when kids are sexually abused, they tend to regress to a younger age.

So they'll do things like wet the bed again, you know, suck their thumb again, stuff like that.

And that was definitely, I just wanted to sleep in my mom's bed.

I just wanted to cuddle my mom.

And so I got to whenever he was gone.

Was she nicer to you when he was gone?

It's not that she was nicer, but it's...

It's kind of like he was the big one.

So like the big monster is gone.

I can breathe.

With my mom, she wasn't so like, you know, not every little thing set her off like it did for him.

But she was still like, my mom is very much like she'd rather just, oh my gosh, these kids like leave me alone.

You know, like I want to do what I want to do.

Get out of here, kids.

It's like that.

But yeah, so I just always wanted to cuddle my mom and, you know, sleep in her bed and stuff like that.

And it was just, I loved when he wasn't around.

At some point during one of his deployments, he got injured.