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What if you are the villain in someone else's story?
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So imagine that you're 21 or 22 years old; you moved out of the house as soon as you could at eighteen because your family just never appreciated you.
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You were basically invisible in your own home.
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You loved your sister, but she was always the more special one and always had a way of making you feel sort of small.
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So you left home and you found a man who makes you feel like the most special and beautiful person in the world.
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You guys have a kid together, who you love more than you've ever loved anything.
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And you are not going to repeat your parents mistakes.
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You are gonna make sure that he knows that he is the most special thing in the world.
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You go about your business that day, and your husband is working hard, and you want him to know how much you appreciate that.
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You cook an elaborate dinner, you deal with your fussing baby, who's teething.
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Your husband comes home and for some reason he asks about your sister.
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Why would he bring this up today?
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Yes, I think about calling her everyday. Yes, I sent her a gift at Christmas.
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But the last time I saw her, I met her new husband, and he was terrible to me.
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You've heard that she has a new baby, around your son's age, but you just can't ever get yourself to pick up the phone.
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That night, you and your husband put your child to bed.
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You go to bed yourselves.
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You get woken up in the middle of the night by a sound at the door.
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You open the door, and you have to look down before you realize that what awakened you is the sound of this adorable baby in a bassinet
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who's bleeding from the forehead and the only thing with him is a letter.
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You pick up the letter, and that is how you learn that your sister has been killed, and this is your nephew whom you've never met before.
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You realize that the life that you have fought for for the last few years has just evaporated in front of your eyes.
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The life that you had worked so hard for is gone.
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You would be Petunia Dursley in the first chapter of Harry Potter.
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We'll have conversations like this in our new podcast, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.
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