emotional abuse Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/emotional-abuse Children's Literature Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:31:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 Lynne Jonell: Justice in Another World https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/lynne-jonell-justice https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/lynne-jonell-justice#respond Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:00:56 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=5292 by Lynne Jonell
I just met a woman who lived through horrifying emotional abuse as a child.
I had been told about her history some years before; but when I met the woman, we didn’t mention it. We talked instead about books, a subject of common interest, and teaching, her passion.
I made an effort to forget what I knew about her past; it was awful enough for her to have lived through it without my thinking about it while we talked, like a bystander at a crime scene who keeps casting surreptitious glances at the pooling blood beneath a blanket-covered mound.… more

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