Amalia's Story, Chapter Seventy-Three
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"Backstory"
"The farther I looked into my past, the murkier it got. Unfortunately, my mind is a mess because of a physical injury that I got as a baby and the mental blocks that my brain had created to mask the moments of trauma. The human brain can dissociate and bury bad memories that are hurtful. And because of that, I could never rely on my own memory to get a clear picture of what it was like for a young Andrew."

"The story that I have been able to stitch together successfully, still with many gaps due to missing parts, was from people I met later in my adult life. In fact, the therapy that I’ve been through has been the most successful than anything else. The other significant contributors to this tapestry of my past are the acquaintances who knew my parents and me."

"And, of course, my parents never contributed to telling me anything or teaching me, for that matter. Such was my relationship with them. There was always a gap there, a cold, silent gap, where there was no communication of any kind. By now, I know they are responsible for what I suffered throughout my entire life. We, their own children, were their test subjects in a sick experiment."

"My story begins four years before my own birth. That was when my parents had their first child, my older brother. He was the star of the show. They considered him as their ...