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Hello. Before I start the story, it's very important to me that everybody reading this is well-prepared for what they’re reading- it is a minefield of triggers. Some of the darker themes in this story include:
- Descriptions of marital abuse from the perspective of a child (both mental and physical)
- Trauma surrounding pregnancy and childbirth (though it does not contain any in-depth description of these actual events, aside from characters speaking about them)
- A lesbian struggling with compulsory heterosexuality and marrying a man she despises
- The all-around horrific treatment and death of a young woman
In addition, this story also contains strong Christian themes from one of the characters, so if that is another trigger for you, I would avoid this story.
Finally, I would like to say now that in this story Rusty searches for and glorifies his stepmother, and while I do try to write her as sympathetic, she is not supposed to be a healthy or perfect character and she will be guilty of some of the abusive behavior in this story. She is a protagonist, but she is not the hero and I do not want her to be taken that way.