'Surviving Hal' by Penny Flanagan

Sometime ago, I attended a family wedding on my then-husband's side. We were all corralled into a remote Thai location for three days of forced family togetherness and severe culture shock. It got me thinking about the ripple-down effect of family history. How family loyalty can skew your sense of right and wrong and how difficult it is for people to survive their childhoods unscathed.

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