Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences, as it discusses topics that can be upsetting,

such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, rape, and murder.

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Thank you so much for listening.

You think you know me, you don't know me well, at all, at all.

You can't know me. You don't know me. You don't know anybody until you told someone. Nobody knew what was really going on.

No one knew about the sexual assault.

The only thing people knew is it's hard to hang out with Jen.

Jen seems different.

Even my own mom.

Why is she emotional all the time?

Why does she seem so down?

But no one knew because there was no way I was going to tell a soul what was going on,

especially having that religious piece to it. I was the bad guy here in my mind. Going back to

the mom, once she figured out it was more than just this friendship, she had said, well, you need to

move out. Every month, I would essentially get kicked out, but then she would ask for a rent check.

So that went on for like a number of

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