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“Though she invariably claimed that she was telling me things for my own good and that she didn’t want me to get “a big head,” slowly I began to understand that her criticism was a reflection of her own insecurity. She was trying to hang onto me—to keep me from moving too far beyond the realm of what she was comfortable with. I broke through the boundaries of my mother’s limited expectations”
― Christa Brown, Baptistland: A Memoir of Abuse, Betrayal, and Transformation