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For a few seconds after my mother said she could not congratulate me for “defying God’s will,” no one moved.

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” I asked.

My father’s eyes filled. “Because she begged me not to. Because she said people would judge you. Because after she joined that church, she said speaking of it would give power to shame. I told myself it did not matter because you were ours and loved. I was wrong. Secrets matter when someone uses them as weapons.”

There it was again.

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