Stephanie Soo

But those two days off the month, who's going to watch the foster children?

They go to respite foster parents like Mary and Jerry.

And Mary is very well aware of the process of trauma, dealing with trauma, how to recover from trauma.

The feeling is like she seems so in tune with not only her emotions, but the emotions of everyone around her.

And every single aspect of Mary's life then and now aligns with what she has been saying.

The cats.

When Mary and her family lived in the countryside, she distinctively remembers that they had these kittens in the house, these baby kittens.

And Mary's parents would force her and her sister Ruth to watch while they... The parents would throw the kittens at the wall like they were baseballs.

And Mary says she remembers the walls shaking when the cats would hit the wall.

And if the kittens weren't dead by then, Mary says that her parents would dunk them and grab them by the neck and dunk them in water, drowning them.

Mary writes, Ruth and I were told that if we ever reported our abuse to anyone, the same things that happened to our kittens would happen to us.

And this is not a one-time thing, by the way.

Mary says that at another point, another time a cat and her kittens were hanged one at a time in front of her.

But the crazy thing is, Mary has another vivid memory that she recalled later on where her mom was telling people that came over, like house guests, family friends, that Mary had killed kittens before.

And naturally, Mary doesn't want to believe her, but she does recall this one time where her parents had brought home new kittens.

She's terrified that they're going to end up tortured and ultimately end up dead.

So she decides that she's going to put them in warm clothes and hide the kittens away from her parents.

She puts them in a little suitcase.

She takes them to like this little greenhouse in the back of the house, puts them on the top shelf, hiding them.

She remembers sneaking away once to check up on them and they looked like they were asleep.