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While cleaning my room today I found some old pictures that I took during a trip I took with my youth group my senior year of high school, some pictures of my daughter during her first dance class (it was actually the last day of class when the parents/grandparents get to come watch), and the notebook in which I wrote the first two parts of the Love and Family series. I'm not sure if I'll keep the notebook or not. I have been known to throw away other such notebooks.

What the hell is wrong with people?

I reconnected with my high school BFF last year and we've texted a bit this past year. She told me this summer that she's divorcing her husband (they've been married for twenty years) and that he was in prison. When I asked why she said it was too long to explain so I let it go.

She texted me today and when I asked about the divorce she told me that it's been postponed while waiting to get her two youngest children back from CPS. When I asked why, she told me they took them because they didn't think she protected them from the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of their father.

I've met this man. I was at their wedding. I've spent weekends sleeping on their couch. I'm the godmother of their youngest son. I never once thought he would molest all three of his kids (and possibly his grandson who is only a year). I can see him physically abusing his wife and kids (he was emotionally and verbally abusive to my friend and their daughter) but sexual molestation? Nope. Can't see it.

For those who say the wife/mother always knows, I say: no, she doesn't. My friend is a good mother and she totally missed this.

Not sure how the abuse was discovered (not sure I want to know), but I believe her when she says she had no clue.

ETA: Just found out that my friend's daughter turned her husband in because he had started molesting his grandson.

At least I know that he'll suffer in prison once his crime is discovered.