[Gallagher]

Dear Someone,

In the years before now, my life has felt at a standstill. There was a time that I wanted to die, but it's been longer that I've wanted to live and find better for myself. Moving in with people that actually feel like my family wasn't something i had ever hoped for seriously, but when it was offered, even if the most unfortunate of circumstances, it started to feel like exactly what I needed. To get away from you. To escape this complacency your wife has with your behavior. To get past this abuse without violence, abuse without conscious choice, that had broken me as a child and sometimes still threatens me to this day.

It was fine when that escape couldn't happen yet because of the cost. It wasn't fine when you drove the kind of father I should have had away. It really wasn't fine hearing you call your poison 'no big deal'.

I'm not sure how I'll make it through these next months with you around. If it isn't just a few months, I may not.