Caroline Darian relives the moment she discovered that she was also a victim of her father
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I enter my parents’ house, draw in the familiar smells, drop off my bag in the room with the violet colour scheme where I always slept with my husband and son, walk past the family photos in the corridors, glance at my father’s paintings, one of them a female nude. Each step is like a station of the cross. All of my memories of this place – once so comforting, so joyful – are tainted now. The walls around me are silent witnesses of the abominable scenes that took place over the years, as my father drugged my mother and served her up to strangers to be raped.
Everywhere I look, I see the shadows of his dark side. A family photo, full of smiles and joy, now strikes me simply as proof of the manipulation and dishonesty that went on for so long. As for his paintings, my urge is to burn them all, starting with the nude portrait.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/11/caroline-darian-daughter-dominique-pelicot-memoir-extract-did-he-abuse-me
Author : Caroline Darian
Publish date : 2025-01-11 06:00:05
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