Forced to grow up fast, Karen found strength in protecting her younger sister, helping her cope with her father’s imprisonment and her mother’s repeated hospitalisations due to alcoholism and mental illness. She also reflects on the painful consequences of her mother’s forbidden love with a teenage boy and the subsequent emotional toll.
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