This poetic short prose explores the fragile boundary between innocence and violence through the eyes of a narrator who witnesses child abuse in a clinical setting. It examines the transformation of healthy bodies into wounded ones — and the emotional impact this has on victims, witnesses, and society as a whole. Beyond that, it asks how deeply the family we are born into shapes our ability to participate in the world.
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