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Mia Laubenheimer: A Narrative Analysis

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22 January 2016
Trigger Warning
Mia Laubenheimer

Loving someone is handing them a gun and a map of all your weak spots and trusting them not to shoot. I didn’t know that five months into my first relationship I’d be curled up in a public stairwell, trying to figure out what we had done to each other.

I have stared down the barrel of a loaded shotgun. How could an innocent relationship turn into such a twisted game of Russian roulette? I can’t go a single day without fearing for my life and the thought that he could knock down my door at any given time makes every second a painful nightmare, but for the sake of my family, who worry themselves sick about me, I try block him out of my mind. So whenever my little cousin asks me why I’m sad, I
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