Family Drama · fiction
A Marriage They Could Not Punish
Carmen Kelly was twenty-two years old when her father decided that independence was a sickness a husband ought to cure. Thomas Kelly never used those exact words. Men like Thomas rarely said the ugliest things plainly. They wrapped them in respectable language until cruelty sounded almost reasonable. He called it duty. He...
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- Genre
- Family Drama
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
- Fiction status
- fiction
- Editorial responsibility
- My Life Story Editorial
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