Dear Margo: I grew up in a minister's family (the oldest girl of four children), but it was a dysfunctional one — something I've never been able to reconcile. From a young age until I was in high school, I was regularly whipped with a belt as punishment, and as this was being done, my mother would laugh. In gym one year (I was a sophomore at the time), when my teacher and peers noticed the bruises and welts up and down my body, I said I fell off a horse. I know that in today's world thi ...

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