More Words, Deeper Hole

If I could go back in time and stop the root cause of childhood abuse among the females in my family with the assurance that each of us would still be born as a result, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Then again, the source of that abuse is what led to a hundred small choices which led to my sisters, and was the direct cause of the eventual reconciliation between my parents where I was the end result. Saving my elder sisters from abuse would mean wiping myself from history, resulting in paradox.