Blog #3 - Weight On Shoulders
As the days passed and Dorothy finally began to get used to the holiday season being comparing still to New York, her nightmares began to return. Around spring time of this year, her nightmares had faded away, and she even went months without a single dream at all. However, with the memories of holidays as a child with her father and mother surfaced, the nightmares seemed to have returned. Dorothy tried to be someone who could move past troubles and focus on the positive things to come, and she was generally pretty good about it. So why could she not move on from what her father did to them? Would he forever haunt her mind? She woke up this morning with a shirt dripping of sweat and her pillow thrown across the room. She recalls throwing a pillow in this most recent nightmare, but didn’t realize that she had actually done so. As she tried to catch her breath, her thoughts swam with images of ruined Christmas days and broken glass scattered across the floor. Although the last Chr...