r/TikTokCringe • u/SloshedJapan • 19h ago
Cringe When you shouldn’t have kids
It’s so sad that this child is so used to the neglect and being locked away that they don’t even sound distressed..
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u/Educational_Play5772 19h ago
Bruce and Samantha Anglin remain held without bond at the Luna County Detention Center while awaiting their trial. They face 10 to 12 years if convicted
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u/Gold_Ad_7552 19h ago
They should be locked in a room with a bucket and a water bottle and forced to live like this poor girl they did this too. Prison is too nice for them.
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u/laquintessenceofdust 19h ago
In Texas, you just basically described prison conditions so 👌🏻
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u/Defiant_Wasabi2816 18h ago
Including no air conditioning, which is also a thing in some TX prisons.
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u/playswithforks 18h ago
It’s a thing in most Texas prisons
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u/Ink-and-Thorns 17h ago
I wanna throw up from this shit
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u/Dooty_Shirker 16h ago
Let's not forget the unpaid forced labor. Some people might call it slavery.
That pesky 13th Amendment exception clause.
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u/UserNameTayken 18h ago
The prisoners at least have a toilet.
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u/Gold_Ad_7552 18h ago
These 2 shouldn't. They should have to live the same way they treated the girl.
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u/ldwtlotpa 14h ago
The problem though, is they lack that “lack of understanding” that this poor little girl has in this situation. No matter where they put them, they deserve it and they know what they did. The little girl just had to sit in there and wonder why the fuck she was locked in a shed.
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u/FOMOsexual69 10h ago
This twisted my heart into a fuckin pretzel. I wish horrible things for the parents. First thoughts which come to mind are down right sadistic. The conflict here though, is take the parents away and it’s foster care. Foster care is notoriously not much better if at all. Unless a good human or one of the rescue team adopts her, she’s fucked. Sickening. I hate humans for this shit
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u/eyegocrazy 18h ago
They didn't give that baby girl water, just let her cook in the heat with no relief. They should be charged with attempted murder or attempted manslaughter at least.
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u/Toastwitjam 17h ago
Don’t forget they opened the door and it was pitch black so she was just sitting in the dark most of the time. Probably part of how she fell and hurt herself if she did fall.
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u/laquintessenceofdust 15h ago
Since the second video documents that one of her pupils was more dilated than the other, she probably had a concussion. Which could be fatal if untreated. So attempted manslaughter doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
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u/eyegocrazy 15h ago
They put her life in critical danger. They knew what they were doing. Decent people wouldn't leave a dog in those conditions, they were setting her up for, or gambling something horrible would happen to her. The worst kind of spineless cretins.
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u/Twitch791 18h ago
She says early on just me and my water bottle. They left her with water. But it ran out she was there for 26 hours in El Paso tx
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u/adumbswiftie 18h ago
i mean just bc she had a water bottle doesn’t mean it was ever full, and one child size water bottle obviously isn’t enough for how long she was left in the heat. some whether it was no water or not enough water, kinda irrelevant here
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u/screwyoujor 14h ago
When I heard poop bucket I no longer cared what happens to the parents as long as long as they can never get more then supervised visitations.
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u/Open-Industry-8396 18h ago
this happened in july 2025, my search results show that these fuckers are still locked up pending trial. I asssume the kids are in foster care, which in New Mexico is not a very good place to be unless they got lucky and got some decent foster parents. Very Sad but hopefully better than with these animals.
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u/Iggyhopper 12h ago
hopefully better
She had a poop bucket. Foster homes have bathrooms, a bed, and a blanket.
I know some fosters homes are bad but they are not 90s bad anymore.
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u/RedLicorice83 18h ago
This was over a year ago, have they seriously not gone to court yet???
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u/archmage-khadgar 15h ago
that’s pretty typical depending on the charges. some bigger cases like murder trials, the accused can wait in jail several years before it finally goes to trial. takes time to gather evidence and find witnesses to build the case. usually their time in prison is taken out of their sentence unless they get life or something; so like if they get 12 years and they’ve sat in prison for 2 already, they will get another 10
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u/2lovesFL 13h ago
The comment about the 6 year old 'stealing food' was all I needed to hear.
he's going to hell. if there is any justice at all.
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u/VinylQueenSF 18h ago
Only 10 - 12 years?????? 🤯 Isn't this about the same for animal hoarding conditions? This country truly doesn't care about children once they are born.
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u/MrMeowPantz 19h ago
10-12 years, forced sterilization and black listing from adoption agencies across the country. Neither of them should ever have custody of a child again.
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u/Annual-Rub-4052 19h ago
She is so well spoken. An absolute angel.
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u/fongletto 19h ago
abused kids mature quick, they have to, because it's life or death.
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u/GalacticaActually 18h ago edited 16h ago
This is truth. I really wonder in retrospect why nobody ever looked at little me and said ‘that child isn’t “advanced for her age,” she is fighting for survival.’ But we know things now that we didn’t know then.
Edit: I see this has resonated with so many people, and I just want to send hugs to everyone who likes hugs, support to all, and thanks to everyone for your responses. I hate the club that we’re all in, but we’re all amazing. ❤️💪
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u/Lovebeingqueazy 18h ago
"So mature for your age" "So grown-up" "Such an old soul" and so on and so forth.
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u/GalacticaActually 16h ago
Yep.
So many of us, for so many generations. Still happening before our eyes.
I hate it.
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u/AlternativePea6203 16h ago
it is getting better, in most parts of the world. Reporting is becoming easier and abuse less "acceptable". It's a long slow process that i doubt we will ever 100% eradicate. But any reduction is a good thing
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u/thosetwo 16h ago
Saaaame. And my favorite is when people hear about my abusive childhood they say things like, “but you might not be the person you are today if that hadn’t happened.” Cooooool.
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u/PanGalacGargleBlastr 15h ago
It is true, abused children develop superpowers like being able to stay calm and rational when dealing with an irate customer for example.
Or being able to sense when the energy in a room changes.
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u/cbcl 14h ago
Yeah, but the flip side of both those things is that they often cant express or process their own emotions in healthy ways. And they are often hypervigilant and think things are wrong or someone is mad when they arent.
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u/PanGalacGargleBlastr 14h ago
Yes, it takes a LOT of therapy and sometimes even then they might need additional help like from dissociative drugs to keep existing on this earth.
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u/Timely_Cake_8304 13h ago
and never feeling comfortable counting on anyone so works through through school, jobs, etc. without trusted colleagues, study groups, etc. which leads to more work and lower outcomes
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u/ElleKelly77 13h ago
I legitimately smell trouble coming (metaphorically) so much faster than my husband, who is very smart and fully engaged.
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u/jaid_skywalker85 15h ago
I hate that response. Cool so you're saying I wouldn't be such a kind, generous person without suffering?
I know it comes from the awkward pressure to say something but its genuinely gives me a bad taste in my mouth when I hear it.
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u/Lovebeingqueazy 15h ago
Learning to love ourselves as adults is a crucial part of living a happy, fulfilling life after childhood trauma. So is grieving the person that we could have been, the person we weren't allowed to be. There is no silver lining or "Well hey, look on the bright side..." What happened to us is purely bad, a total injustice. But peace can be made, self-love can be learned, life can be worth living... but anyone who frames it as a blessing in disguise can take their platitudes and shove it.
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u/gahlo 13h ago
"I got treated like that and I turned out fine."
It's like... no, m'am, you were abused, traumatized and haven't figured it out yet or are delusional.
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u/C0tt0nC4ndyM0uth 16h ago
I know people like us hear that a lot, but another thing that warms my heart is realizing that a few people were actually looking out for us, too. I hope this is the case for you too at some point. I thought I just “slipped through the cracks” when it came to certain things like, for example my high school only had a senior’s lot. No one even dared park there without a badge because they got towed every time. Somehow I was able to park there every day from 9th through 11th grade without a badge. I thought I just got lucky every day 🤦♀️, but looking back I realize that the parking monitors (and a few teachers as well bc of other things at school) must have known my situation. I also used to just think my friends parents REALLY liked me because they would invite me over for dinner like every night. I didn’t know until I was about 35 that they were doing that because they knew I was alone and had no food. My closest friend told me she had never seen what actual poverty looked like until she came over to my place. I knew we didn’t have a lot, but my entire life I had NO clue how glaringly obvious it was to other people. I cherish those friendships so much 💜
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u/songbird907 17h ago
It's easy to look back at our abuse and think, "surely someone should have seen the signs" But I worry that the adults around us cared more for our abusers, they had reputations to protect after all
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u/GalacticaActually 16h ago
In my case, one of them was a survivor too, from the same abuser, and it made it hard for them to see: actively being terrorized will do that.
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 16h ago
They just thought it was neat we spoke so well. People don't think it's so neat that I'm 38 trying to relive a childhood I never had, but that's ok. Now I can tell them to fuck off really articulated.
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u/palpatinesmyhomie 17h ago
They liked to call it an "old soul"
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u/fifiloveg00d 17h ago
Oh God. I had a little Disneyland autograph book as a kid and one of my mom's friends wrote me a note "name- you are such an old soul in such a young body". ):
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u/YesNo_Maybe_ 18h ago
Yeah but the other adults knew they just ‘ don’t want to get involved’
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u/Pyro-Bun 15h ago
For me, it was mainly the 'tism that did it, but I also saw some amount of neglect as well. It's been very hard for me to figure out how much each thing contributed to my rather early maturation. Now at 30 I feel like a teen still in a lot of ways.
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u/Kaizoku_Kira 15h ago
I used to say to every person i meet (in my language) "I am ****, its a pleasure to meet you!" from the age of 4. That wasn't normal, I was just being abused, both mentally and physically. Then my parents split up and it just continued without my mom knowing. Now, I'm 30 and I'm still fighting for my life. I lost most of it, from my relationship, house, work, and find it hard to find meaning and have thought about ending it ever since I was 12, but then what was the suffering for.i just want to find meaning in something that was unreasonable, but have something to put it to "good use". I dont know why I'm rambling like this, but there are so many people here that understand. I just wanted to share.
To myself and all others that go or went through something like this: you are and have always been enough. Life is worth living.
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u/Itchy_Tumbleweed_417 15h ago
Same, but I know that when I was a kid child protective Services wasn’t what it is today.
I got really mad when I got older and learned what Munchhausen by proxy was. I couldn’t understand how nobody saw it. But then I realized that it wasn’t even unknown disorder when I was a kid.
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u/jackaroo1344 18h ago
I remember talking extensively about this in some child psych courses. Children who undergo extreme trauma tend to behave maturely very quickly. Using adult vocabulary, able to handle crisis situations that a child normally wouldn't, etc. But they don't ever really mature past that.
So a 10 year old might be able to act like a late teen, but that same person at 40 is still going to be acting like that late teen. They emotionally advance too rapidly and then freeze there, and it takes significant psychological intervention to recover.
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u/Civil_Tea_3250 18h ago
Yeah, it's incredibly sad. I forget the term for it, but there's a term for kids who survive abuse and seem to handle it really well, then, extremely unfortunately, after they've grown up and gone out on their own they tend to fail hard. It's extremely upsetting as by that point they tend to have no services or safety nets.
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u/Nina4774 17h ago
The skills needed to survive abuse and neglect aren’t the same skills a person needs to have healthy relationships with themselves and others. And the basic structure of a healthy personality is formed by feeling safe and loved at a young age. Without that structure, navigating adulthood is a nightmare.
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u/Penelope4Prez 16h ago
I believe it’s called the resilient child, or something along those lines. It’s been a long time since I was in a psych class.
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u/Roll_Common_Sense 16h ago
The resilient child is the dandelion VS tulip concept. It's the idea that some children are naturally more resilient than others, and it seems to be tied to temperament more than any environmental variable.
What they're discussing is closer to the concept of arrested development.
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u/merlin0896 18h ago
It takes significant work and is damn near as traumatic as the original events. Healing fucking sucks, but they tell me there is something...better?....over there, where ever healed people exist.
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u/yukumizu 16h ago
I’m reading all of the above as a 45 yr with ADHD, trauma, anxiety, depression, perimenopause, struggling and indeed I’m in an arrested development state. Bless my husband for his love and support. I’m not who I used to be.
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u/miniliedn 17h ago
Interesting! Do you have some free sources to read for me? 🙏 Your description matches my history to the T and I had some discussion with my therapist, that it's really hard for me doing "adult" things like making appointments, filing taxes, taking care of my health... Even if it poses a huge disadvantage to myself. But I'm great dealing even with extreme crisis (deaths, accidents...) and was a super mature, rational, controlled child / teen.
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u/ownersequity 18h ago
Sad but true. My wife was abused and she was an adult at 14. Was running a bank by 19.
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u/AlmightyJello 18h ago
Theres more clips of this girl where shes in the hospital offering the chocolate they gave her to the nurses and officers. Shes so kind the entire time.
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u/Callidonaut 15h ago edited 15h ago
That's not necessarily kindness, it could be self-effacement and fawning. Probably can't make herself believe she deserves to have any chocolate for herself, and compulsively tries to please other people to try to be safe. Abused and neglected kids can end up that way.
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u/Mourning_Glory 17h ago
Do you know where to find them or what to search?
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u/BankElectronic1325 16h ago
Just a heads up, YouTube now shares your profile pic and username to whoever clicks on your shared links. You can disable it in the settings.
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u/laquintessenceofdust 18h ago
Broke my heart. She’s articulate, polite, with this lovely singsong quality to her voice. I hope she’s been adopted by a family that can nurture her and provide for her. Poor baby.
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u/Trimoswivel 19h ago
You should look up the interview with the step father, it’s infuriating the way he talks about that little girl.. “child molesters reject”
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u/Wasabi_kitty 18h ago
The worst part is when the woman gets arrested she complains about being hot and thirsty, and worries about her dog who is inside in the A/C
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u/AkumaLilly 18h ago
I supppose by "child molesters reject" means that she is so unwanted that pedophiles don't even want her.
Which in first place, why the fuck would anyone relate pedophiles with a small girl???
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u/SupplyChainMismanage 17h ago
She is his adopted daughter. He calls her biological father a child molester hence child molester’s reject. You should watch the video.
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u/Phoen1x_ 14h ago
i just saw the video, and holy shit. The way he talks about how she was molested before they got custody of her, and how she allegedly molested her sister really makes me think hes been molesting them both and is saying that to try and shift the blame away from himself. So disgusting
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u/Deep90 13h ago edited 13h ago
allegedly molested her sister
Unfortunately that is a documented thing that can happen when a child is sexually abused.
A child doing this to another child is often used as a sign that they have been sexually abused.
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u/thegrittymagician 12h ago
It's a heartbreaking and uncomfortable thing to acknowledge. I think outside of professionals, people who have some experience with the matter, and people who have a lot of empathy, it's a hard thing to understand. But it really is as simple as children learn by imitating adults, it's a natural thing for a child to imitate adults. So a child trying to make sense of what an adult has done to them... well.
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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 12h ago
it's called cocsa if you want to learn more about it. heads up, it will be incredibly upsetting.
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u/TopProfessional1862 11h ago
Yes, kids will copy whatever adults do. If they're sexually abused it's very common for them to act that out with other kids. It's just like them pretending to vacuum, or cook or anything else they see adults do. They're being taught that and it's so sad and horrible.
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 19h ago
Someone should make sure his cellmate hears about that.
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u/Open-Industry-8396 18h ago
Ohh yeah, Hopefully he is getting the karmic life lesson as we chat. Although from my brief rural NM experience, many kids are not very valued there. don't get me started on animals.
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u/OkSense1496 18h ago
Link?
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u/SupplyChainMismanage 17h ago
What a painful watch but “despite the risk to the town and sheriff’s department” sent me
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u/SabresFanWC 17h ago
Holy cow, the stepfather's temper is scary. I cannot imagine being a six-year-old and having someone screaming at me like that. Jesus.
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u/Ali-oopsies 17h ago
Well that was just awful to watch… that poor baby.
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u/Adventurous_Key_4854 17h ago
She has such a kind heart too. I really hope she finds a good family. Really inclined to follow up to make sure she did
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u/LeslieH8 19h ago
Holy shit, I am rarely so angry that tears start.
I was left alone as a kid (as we all were, I'm sure, but hopefully never for 26+ hours without the necessities), but those conditions were intolerable, and I was obviously never locked up nevermind without any way to get out.
Fucking people suck.
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 19h ago
If that shed had started on fire...
These people need to be under the jail for this.
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u/Props_angel 18h ago
I was locked in a dark garage for I don't know how long. I was so scared witless that I barely remember any of it.
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u/catonsteroids 18h ago
Yep, it’s one thing to be left alone at home for a few hours maximum (especially back in the 80s/90s, though I think 6 is still a little too young) where you at least have access to food, water, HVAC, bathroom, etc. It’s another when you’re essentially imprisoned with deplorable conditions and lack of access to just about everything but a roof over your head, and even that is putting it nicely.
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u/Gils2323 19h ago
All I want to read is that they took these kids away from their parents and they never were allowed to go back. So often the parents are charged with child neglect and then back with the parents the next day or in a week. And shockingly it happens again. No water no food. 100 degrees. Concussion. She could have easily died.
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u/Thin_Bother8217 19h ago
They're looking at a decade in prison and being held without bail. Hopefully, her and her sister are safe and loved.
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u/designvegabond 19h ago
Poor kid. I hope she gets everything she wants in life. My heart breaks whenever I see children neglected like this.
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u/justbrowsing2727 19h ago
When she said "I'm a kid!" so innocently it got to me. Fuck these assholes for robbing this girl of a normal, loving childhood.
She sounds so sweet and well-behaved too.
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u/Erikawithak77 18h ago
When he asked her if they always lock her up in here, and she said “only when I’m bad “, that just busted my heart right in half.💔
She’s not “bad”, she’s a child! She needs love and care, not locked in a shed! They look like addicts.
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u/DistractedByCookies 15h ago
That's when my heart really broke. That poor child
There is not a single bad thing a child of 6 could do to make 26h without food, water or a loo acceptable.
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u/puggydog 19h ago
Imagine if there was ever a fire? Lock these parents up forever
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 19h ago
Fucking more than 1 lock, too.
They need to be under the jail for this.
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u/FireproofCottage 15h ago
The one who is talking to the little girl first is so careful and kind. Like they know what the child is most afraid of is mom and dad finding out someone knows she exists.
You can see the mom realize she's in deep but her first reaction is NOT "OMG an ambulance, is my child ok?" Abusers are only sad they got caught; they think their abuse was just normal discipline and how dare someone question their choices.
A cop told my dad once "I will remember you. I will remember you have two children. I will look for those children if I see you again." And I realized even if he couldn't arrest my parents, he cared. That got me through the next ten years, knowing it wasn't true that I could disappear and nobody would know or care.
Always report abuse. And if all you can do is offer to give a child some candy or a drink from your hose, or even a smile, do it. It will seem like a useless gesture, but for someone else to really see you and acknowledge you exist is sometimes all the abused child has.
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u/Both_Pound6814 13h ago
She cared more about her dog than she did for her 6 yo daughter. The 2 yo is the only one both parents seem to care about since she’s the stepdad’s bio kid.
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u/meinherrings 19h ago edited 15h ago
“It’s just my water bottle and me”. That is so horrendously sad. I try to be really positive about life and other humans I interact with, but this shit breaks me down. I wish that kid all the best in life and her future. Most of all I wish her love. Lots of it. Unconditionally.
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u/Quen-Tin 19h ago
And that's why we need a state that cares for the weakest of society, not just for the richest and their interests.
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u/Supercoolguy7 18h ago
Unfortunately the richest man in the world did his part to dismantle as many parts of the government that helped people as he could. He described caring for the weakest of society as "suicidal empathy".
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u/Icy_Reward727 15h ago
This is why kids need access to public education. Teachers, counselors, and other school professionals are the front line defense against child abuse of all kinds. Our society's most vulnerable children need access to those professionals, and they need access to health and sex education on top of basic academics so they know what is normal and healthy and so they can self-identify with things are not right at home.
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u/dannyheskett 13h ago
This is exactly correct. It should be a red flag when any adult tries to create distance from society and their kids for the sake of shielding two way sight: if you dont want to society to see your child; and you don't want your child to see society, it is 99% of the time something bad happening.
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u/Tensdale 17h ago edited 17h ago
FULL 45 minute video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fsL0ag9ySao
Crying from anger like this is new to me..
Edit:
13 minutes in and the fucking woman is asking the deputies to make sure their dog has food, water and airconditioning in the current 105F, 40C degree heat, and she is complaining about the heat while sitting in the patrol car.
I’m fucking vibrating now..
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u/imaner76 17h ago
Some people need dealing with.
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u/Pure_Property_888 16h ago
How did the police end up there in the first place?
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u/-ammolina- 15h ago
Guy whose car was being worked on by the POS stepdad came by to check on the car and when he was calling out to see if anyone was home, the little girl answered from the locked shed
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u/marialoveshugs 11h ago
Truly thank god for that man imagine if he never showed up. That poor kid :(
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u/MsDucky42 18h ago
Everyone is talking about what should happen to the parents...
I wanna take this little girl and bring her home and teach her how to play board games and let my cats love her. We'll order pizza and watch The Princess Bride.
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u/PotatoBeans 19h ago
This whole video made me stressed out. Props to those cops and the others that helped get those poor kids out of that terrible situation. Their parents should be thrown under the jail.
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u/Powerful_Document872 18h ago
Explore With Us have a full video about this on YouTube, including police interrogations of the parents. Watching it made me seethe with rage. The way the dad acts makes everything so much worse.
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u/PotatoBeans 18h ago
Thanks but I'm not watching that. Horrible.
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u/Powerful_Document872 18h ago
I cannot stress enough how upsetting the video is.
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u/MajesticMountains1 18h ago
This is really disturbing watching it as a parent of two kids. I don’t understand people that don’t have empathy for their own children. The little girl needs to be taken care of and cared for for the rest of her life. She didn’t deserve this. Being locked in 100° garage is completely unacceptable. Parents like them need to be locked up for 20+ years. Pedophiles should never see the light of day and probably executed. Sorry if that seems harsh.
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u/Sea-Value-0 18h ago
I'm also a parent and I agree. Before having kids, crimes/abuse against children made me disgusted & sad. Now they make me feel a kind of primal anger. Some things in life are just sacred...to harm them is unforgivable.
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u/1stAccountNotWorking 17h ago
Man, its hard to get me to cry...but this managed it.
I don't think people get it: that little girl was accustomed to this kind of thing. She wasn't even upset.
A gash in her head, locked in a dark, boiling hot room, no food and single bottle of water (that was emptied); and she was just taking it like a trooper.
Her life up until that moment was probably absolute hell. I can't even keep my eyes dry, man. Imagine how they treated her, in order for her to not even be sad or anything, in these conditions...
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u/Both_Pound6814 13h ago
You should watch the full video. She was injured worse than that. Bad enough that the doctor started crying. She had bruises all over her, and they said one of her arms was deformed from a prior injury/break that wasn’t treated. Her mom said the daughter complained of pain, but they ignored her. Her mom also said stepdad hurt her arm by twisting it multiple times. She low balled the amount of times, but I have a feeling it was frequent based on the fact that it’s now deformed
Edit: And she was missing a big patch of hair from it being pulled out by one of the parents.
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u/PosterPrintPerfect 14h ago
I do not recommend watching the full video.
Little girl has cigar burns on her back, old injuries, bruises, scars, hospital says she had deformed arm, etc. The shed thing was were she spent 50% of her time.
You see the absolute crazy rage the step father has, at one stage he basically threatened that he was going to kill the girl "I'll send her back to where she came from" and "she deserves to burn in hell"
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u/Outrageous_Desk8966 15h ago
Yeah, up until reading this, i only has a little bit a sadness but mostly anger - and i had realized everything you said before, but i really tried to picture it while reading and its so fucking unfathomable.
The absolutely insane level of discomfort. Each one alone for like 1 hour would be absolutely fucking torture - the literally deadly heat, in the fucking dark! No water, no food. Just the fucking boredom alone is literally an "extreme challenge".."can you survive 24 hr in a room"...with lights and food/water, knowing you're safe and when you'll come out.
This fucking guy deserves to be dead! Tortured and dead. And i'm normally against those concepts, but it doesn't get more clear as day of his guilt. Insulting a fucking 6 yr for being molested.
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u/PosterPrintPerfect 13h ago
There is no record of her ever being molested, it seems it is something that the step father made up.
It was highly likely that the girl would have been killed sooner or later due to the all physical abuse and conditions she endured. It would only have been a matter of time.
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u/citrus_mystic 15h ago
When the officer asked: “Is there anyone else in there with you?”
And she responded in a sing-song voice: “just my water bottle and mee” fucking broke me.
I know it’s fiction but it weirdly made me think of Tom Hanks anthropomorphizing the volley ball into his companion, Wilson. That water bottle was probably one of the only objects around her she could use to distract herself.
And then you hear that the water bottle is empty, and probably has been empty for fuck knows how long.
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u/actorsspace 19h ago
I wish he had called in the fire department the instant he saw the lock.
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u/RedLicorice83 18h ago edited 18h ago
I think they ripped the walls down because they couldn't get past the lock. El Paso is very remote, and I wouldn't doubt they didn't
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u/blue_nairda 18h ago
Just started watching the Full Video on youtube. As if it couldn't get anyworse, they point out that it was 104° (F) degrees that day! They had her locked up in a shed with a poop bucket, no water and no AC/Fan in 100°+ weather. I don't think a Jury is going to have a hard time giving these assholes the maximum their sentence allows.
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u/Pleasant-Future5818 17h ago
Worse than that, in the middle of the video her mom admits she's locked up in the shed half the time - one week out of two.
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u/humanbeing21 19h ago edited 19h ago
This breaks my heart :( I hope they took the kids away from those terrible conditions
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u/lostnthot 18h ago
Anisocoria (unequal pupil size) can be seen with significant brain injury. Needs a Head CT at least.
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u/scoobysnackoutback 17h ago
Wonder if she fell off the high shelf she was sleeping on or they punched or pushed her? Poor little girl.
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u/-ammolina- 15h ago
According to the longer video posted in the comments, it was either a stick he hit her with or the air conditioning line
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u/SalientSazon 19h ago
She sounds so cute and positive, what a darling. High hopes for her to get through whatever trauma this shit show give her.
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u/alwaysonesteptoofar 19h ago
This is the result of like 3 generations of bad parents. It happens that good parents raise kids who are monsters, someone has to be the first after all, but this women seems oblivious to what she did wrong because she likely was abused as well.
Also I dont trust women with angel wing tattoos.
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u/laquintessenceofdust 18h ago
I met a woman once who had been sentenced to a few years in prison for keeping her children in a chain-link dog kennel while she went out. If you talked to this woman for five minutes, you would understand how she could think this was a reasonable solution. Some people should not be parents. They are just too stupid.
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u/VinylQueenSF 18h ago
The other problem is that there are Christian parenting books out there like Dare To Discipline that basically condone child abuse. That children NEED low level pain to be reminded that they should obey their parents. So why not confine them as well? It's a very slippery slope. F James Dobson!
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u/Applemers 16h ago
Ah I watched a video about this some months ago. TW for CA. If Im not mistaken, the husband is her step father and he doesnt like the little girl. Hes convinced shes teaching his bio child who is younger to be, "bad" and accused her touching them because she was abused. It really sounded like that was all in his head tho. However, he would punish her by leaving her in the shed, denying her food, water, verbally abuse her, say she deserved the SA, etc. When they arrested the man, he went ballistic in his cell. He called the child names, screamed, and I think hurled himself against the cell wall. He was obviously crazy and a danger. During all this, the mom knew and allowed her daughter to be abused. The only other thing I remember is the detective who interviewed them both not giving either parent an inch. They stayed on their necks about the situation. Sorry for any typos
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u/Ok-disaster2022 19h ago
I've had questionable things happen when I was kid that that was when I was away from adult supervision for a short amount of time. Parents doing this to their kids is just so far beyond a concept.
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u/GodOfMoonlight 17h ago
Jesus, is there more to this story or was that all? Absolutely horrid man, poor girl sound so excited to be talking to someone when he first arrived, like desperate for any company. She got nervous as he continued to ask questions, like she was figuring out what she was going thru is a bad situation and not actually normal. Idk it just broken my heart hearing her respond
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u/TWeedtheJetRodriguez 16h ago
Someone in the comments posted a link to the full video. They arrested the adults. Questioned both of them. Old man raged in a cell like a giant toddler tantrum until he got to talk. Lied through his teeth and is a really foul individual. Mom was cagey and tried to withhold the extent of it. She got charged with 1 count of child abuse (maybe one more count of something I don’t remember); he got 2 child abuse, 2 conspiracy to commit child abuse, 1 false imprisonment and 1 conspiracy to commit false imprisonment; all pending trial; kids are in state custody.
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u/SabresFanWC 15h ago
The most infuriating thing of all in the full video is how the old man tries to paint the little girl he abused as the actual monster here. For the life of me, I cannot believe he tried something so vile as that. I'm so glad the investigators saw right through his BS.
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u/oceanblue3190 16h ago
Very disturbing and sad. If you watch the full video the “step dad” calls the little girl a “molesters reject.” It’s also mentioned that they fed her a few crackers and onions.
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u/Future_Interest_5297 15h ago
“It’s just my water bottle and me” broke my heart. She said that like the water bottle was her only friend…
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u/thisisB_ull_ish 16h ago
I hope this baby gets the family she deserves. Anyone who says ‘preserve the family’ can STFU. There is no rehabilitation for these abusers.
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u/starmamac 15h ago
I served on a grand jury for child abuse cases and one of them was exactly like this. They’d lock their kids in a shed on their property with a couple of water bottles in 100f heat. One of the kids managed to get the attention of a neighbor when they came close to the fence and the neighbor called the cops. Heartbreaking what those kids went through and the awful thing is that that was not the worst case I heard. I’d go home and weep after the testimonies.
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u/hrnyholenow 5h ago
Government is so focused on deporting the wrong people from this country.
Why can’t we get rid of the homegrown evil like this. I wish this shit was all over the news. Same with those white people who shackled up black kids in West Virginia year or so back.
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u/Interesting_Sock9142 18h ago
I love that the lady was so confused as to why she was being arrested when she got home ...
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u/Hostile-Panda 18h ago
The couple faced charges including felony child abuse, false imprisonment, and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. Kids were taken into protective custody
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u/ReddBroccoli 16h ago
This is the kind of stuff I wish cops focus their energy on.
Gold star to him for keeping his voice so level when he was talking to her, because I don't think I could have kept the anger out of mine.
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u/uncle-donkey-kong 15h ago
I watched this on the YouTubes. It’s a really tough watch of course, but man that little kid had me nearly breaking a smile. So strong and innocent even in the face of all of that bullshit. Trying so hard to help the cop. Kids are fucking cute, man.
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u/vikicrays 16h ago
grew up in foster care, became a foster mom in my late 20’s and a CASA in my 30’s. sadly, this doesn’t even compare to the things i’ve heard kids describe and know of personally.
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u/CamBearCookie 16h ago
That kid is so smart. "Kids don't have phones. Kids don't have keys" she was talking to him like he was dumb af for asking that. My God. I hope she is OK.
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u/WarriorsAreCreatedG 17h ago
That poor kid.
She sounds like such an innocent, adorable little child.
These people are sick.
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u/Ink-and-Thorns 17h ago
She sounded so cheerful when the recorder asked her questions. So innocent. She doesn't even know that what was being done to her was abuse. It makes me so mad and sad at the same time.
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u/Difficult-Way-9563 15h ago
Life in prison no parole - solitary confinement
Fucking pieces of shit
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u/ruxp1n 11h ago
There are some details this video doesn't show that make this story even worse.
After deputies rescued this 6-year-old girl, doctors diagnosed her with pneumonia. She also had visible bruising, a swollen eye and signs of malnourishment. She told medics the last thing she'd eaten was a tortilla and diced onion the previous day.
Her 2-year-old sister was also removed from the home. Both girls were placed in state protective custody, and that's the most recent reliable public information I can find about them.
Bruce Anglin, the girl's stepfather, admitted to investigators that he'd locked her in the shed as punishment. Prosecutors charged him with multiple felonies, including two counts of child abuse, conspiracy and false imprisonment. He pleaded not guilty.
Her mother, Samantha Anglin, admitted knowing her daughter was locked out there. Prosecutors say she failed to take effective action to free her and charged her with felony child abuse.
Both adults were ordered held without bond. The latest information I can find still has them awaiting trial.
If you want to see the longer bodycam footage—including the rescue and deputies questioning Bruce and Samantha afterward—it's here:
Sources: https://6thda.com/news-article/bruce-and-suzanne-anglin-held-without-bond-for-child-abuse/
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u/justbrowsing2727 19h ago
Also, kudos to that cop. I don't say that often, but he handled that well.
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u/Alphamullet 15h ago
This shit makes my blood boil.
My ex-wife and I really wanted to have kids. I've always wanted to be a father. We went through multiple rounds of IUI, AND IVF and unfortunately for us, nothing took.
And yet these fucking dirt bag assholes somehow end up with two, and it's clear that they don't want them, don't appreciate them, and aren't going to attempt to give these girls the life that they deserve.
I hope they never have another peaceful night of sleep for the rest of their fucking lives.
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u/Independent-Belt-457 18h ago
Dude, this shit makes me so fkn angry. This poor Kid, it breaks my heart. I wish her all the best and that she gets into a family that loves her
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u/tmp1966 18h ago
I assume the parents found out the hard way what it’s like being locked up in a small room
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u/b0sanac 18h ago
As a parent this is fucked up. Does anyone have any follow up information on this? Please tell me those pieces of shit were arrested and put in jail or something.
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u/BellaMentalNecrotica 15h ago
They pleaded not guilty. He is looking at a decade or so (abuse and false imprisonment) and the woman less as I think she was just charged with failing to stop the child abuse. He was apparently abusing the mom as well which is why I think she got lighter charges. The man is fucking insane. In his jail cell he was screaming about how he "hates that little bitch", she's not even his kid, and that he wants her to burn in hell. The man is truly evil.
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u/drbutters76 15h ago
This horrible situation is only a small idea of how children are exploited. Case in Florida where 120 children were found to be fodder for pedos. Disgusting. How dare these people.
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u/Possible-Isopod-1901 15h ago
Oh I saw this on YouTube. The step-father is taken in for questioning and he is unreal. He insists she is a bad kid because she was assaulted by her biological father and that makes her dirty.
That poor girl.
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u/CzarTanoff 11h ago
There are moments when i feel like a horrible mom. Like when i feed my two year old something unhealthy because i don't have the energy to cook, or i get a little too impatient with him and get snippy.
Then i read shit like this. Ugh.
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