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There were little things that I started
to notice as I got older.
He wouldn't conversate with me as much.
He'd be a little distant.
His temper, he could go from zero to 60
within the blink of an eye, honestly.
He used to repeat hisself a lot during arguments.
He would say the same thing over, and over, and over
just in different versions, say it different ways,
but at the end of the day, he was saying the same thing.
So that's when I started to actually pay attention to
what exactly was taking place.
And then sometimes, he would talk to hisself.
When I would ask him to share with me
what exactly was going on with him,
because it was just the two of us after my mom died,
sometimes he wouldn't say anything to me,
sometimes he told me too much, being that I was still young.
He would tell me about the actual killings that he saw
when he was overseas, and he told me how he witnessed
someone in his unit get their back blown off.
So actually, having him tell me those things at a young age,
it was kind of a hard pill to swallow,
but after my mom died, I had to grow up.
So at the end of the day, doing what was best
for my father and I, was what my main concern was,
and being so young, it was a lot of responsibility,
but we kind of got through it.