[ Celeste is quick in the uptake and doesn't waste time with pointless outrage and sympathies. It helps McGillis feel calm - more than the subject matter itself, he hates imagining the way it might make people look at him. Scornful eyes, pitying eyes... It doesn't matter. They'd probe too deeply all the same. ]
It fully stopped when I was 15.
[ So Celeste is correct - this leaves quite a few torturous years in between. And even after... McGillis didn't cut contact with his "father" until he was 27. ]
cw: discussion of rape continued
It fully stopped when I was 15.
[ So Celeste is correct - this leaves quite a few torturous years in between. And even after... McGillis didn't cut contact with his "father" until he was 27. ]