Born Into Hell
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My name is Damon. This is a true story, a story I’ve tried to forget. It just won’t go away. The nightmares still torture me. The violence I saw as a child is still with me every night. It all flashes through my mind in seconds and I still get that shaky feeling inside. I have trouble writing about it. I’ve seen my mother beaten until she was unconscious, time after time. I’ve seen her shot twice and she never went to the doctor. I was shot down and then beaten in the head with the rifle barrel. All this happened when I was just a kid. All of these people with their repressed memories are what inspired me to write this. I don’t believe them for one second. If it happened, and it hurt, it will stay with you for life. I’d give a million dollars if I could repress mine. That is, if I had a million dollars. I am fifty-nine years old and am now tying my right arm to the bed. My nightmares are so violent I’ve hurt myself. I’ve also hit my girlfriend and won’t sleep with her anymore. All of this started when I was three years old. I’ve tried alcohol and mind altering drugs, but nothing works. You tell me something about walking through the valley of the shadow of death, and I can tell you what it’s like. Read this story at your own risk. I’ll not be responsible for anyone’s nightmares but my own.
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Born Into Hell
I wish I could wake up some beautiful morning and say, "Oh heck, that was just a bad dream. Now get up and go on. Be happy that nightmare was just your imagination, and that the blood on the pillowcase isn’t real. The swollen hand isn’t real either, and that coffee table that was thrown into the wall just jumped over there by itself."
Read this short story, then you tell me what I could have done to change anything.
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I suppose you could say that I am a human being who would rather suffer and do without, myself, than to see another person be in pain or do without. If I had my way, I’d take all the pain on earth myself. I’ve always felt that everyone else was worthier than I was and have always had the feeling of being unqualified, no matter how superior I have felt in my mind.