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I stood near the corner of the room, watching my father tie the knot with another woman.

A few years ago, he stood with my mother in this same office to annul their marriage. I hadn't been angry or exactly sad at their separation, I had made peace with it.

My father hadn't always been this paranoid and driven by the need to control my every move.

My mother's antics caused him to be this way. After their divorce, which was exceptionally dirty, my mother walked away with very little. My father m
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