a lot of yelling behind closed doors, a lot of crying

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Edie found my father making love with some lady in the blue room . . . just humping away, and it blew her mind. He jumped up and swore at her. She went running to her room. He came charging in and slapped her a few times. He was irrational because he’d been caught in his act. “You don’t know anything. You’re insane,” he told her. Then he made the doctor come right over and give her a lot of tranquilizers. Nobody’d believe Edie because “Edie is sick.” Mummy wouldn’t believe her—she just had a blockage against things like that. Nobody’d believe her, so she was really a prisoner. Edie wanted to tell people what was happening, but she couldn’t do anything. She was too fucked up in her head to be able to do anything. She lost all her feelings because everything around her was an act now. She knew what had really happened, and my father just denied the whole thing. And that really hurt her.