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“Keep it in the Family”

Uvebruce
16 min readNov 28, 2020

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A truth turned into a fictional story!

Sue eventually found out that sex with her ‘parents’ was abnormal.

Photo by Elijah O'Donnell on Unsplash

This time, they made love twice. She hated him for it. She hated all men. For good reason. And most people. She was self-centred, and at times, extremely aggressive. Her psychiatrist told her it was a normal ‘side effect’ for non-compliant bipolar people. Sue was totally non-compliant, hating the ‘fuzzy feeling’ in her head when she took Lithium medication.

In her teens, as a trainee landscape gardener, her adopted father insisted she learn a trade and ‘work for her supper’, she grew lithe and naturally muscular – powerful, with not an ounce of fat on her torso. She worked hard, and learned to love gardening work, the outdoors – she felt a sense of freedom. The hard manual work shutting out the myriad of thoughts running through her overactive bipolar mind. Her days in the sun had turned her Mediterranean olive complexion quite dark. Her father, himself a qualified landscape gardener, “tutored” her and pushed her, expecting her to do “anything a man could do” in the landscaping business.

Sue was older now, alone and nearing 30. She met him at a club and still didn’t know his name, but she was using that landscaping strength and physicality now, in bed! She had verbally abused…

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Uvebruce
Uvebruce

Written by Uvebruce

Brand Nerd. Waiting for the fat lady to sing ! Dyslexic - is it there or their. Passionate about making time to just think!! Sadly thinking hasn’t helped much.

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