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Family Secrets; The Staggering Silence and Alice Munro’s Legacy Seen

Family Secrets; The Staggering Silence and Alice Munro’s Legacy Seen

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Jul 11, 2024
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**Trigger Warning - this post talks about childhood trauma and sexual abuse**

“That where there was silence, there will be speech. That where there were secrets, I will make way for the complicated truth.” Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body.

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