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How Sir Ernest Shakleton, Charles Dickens and Mary Howitt helped me overcome years of abuse

Barbara Carson Todd
Invisible Illness
Published in
6 min readJun 13, 2022
Photo by Rabie Madaci on Unsplash

Growing up in the 1970s, I was a library kid. It was the only safe place to hang out after school. There were bullies at home and more bullies at school.

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Barbara Carson Todd
Invisible Illness

Writer, editor, advocate, occasional organist/cantor. You can find me at barbaracarsontodd.com or on https://nyaddcares.org.

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