OH DELI,

I also am just FURIOUS and SICK TO MY STOMACH hearing about how you parents treated you. It was very bad! Maybe you don't see the extent of how bad it was because at the time, you didn't know any different way of being treated. But to us, to outsiders reading about what happened to you, believe me. . .it was absolutely, unequivacably child abuse.

I have issues with my parents, and they didn't even come close to doing as much harm as yours did. I am so sorry for you, Deli.

I'm not saying your dad didn't love you, only that he was a very dysfunctional person with obviously major issues of his own. Unfortunately, you got the brunt of it.

What both of your parents said and did toward you was WRONG! No way would any child deserve to be treated that way.