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Many young people suffer silently under the verbal, physical and emotional abuse by their parents. They drown in their sorrows and get sick because of pent-up emotions. The woman writing this letter to her parents wishes she could have done so earlier because the unresolved childhood issues are now affecting her adult life. Unfortunately, by the time she braves the situation, her father is dead. However, she feels a wave of relief after putting her thoughts on paper and hopes those who would get a chance to read her memoirs would solve issues with their parents rather than keep things to themselves. Pent up emotions are poisonous to the body.

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Mbono Vision Dube nee Ndlovu is a lecturer of languages and linguistics at Zambian Open university. She comes from a family of story tellers and enjoyed particularly stories narrated by her late grandmother. She is married to Professor Obed Dube and together have three children: Thenjiwe, Thando and Thandani. Mbono Vision enjoys reading and writing

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