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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 15 days ago • 1 min read
Fame
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We tape our mouths shut as we speak out for the murderers.

“My brain eats itself,” Christa Pike commented, eight days from her scheduled state execution,

What about the piece of skull she carried from Colleen, her victim,

Like a trophy?

“Can you treat a sociopath?” Lindsey Clancy researched,

Yet I’ve known mothers who also had postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, who never murdered their babies.

And through all this, genocide

I’m a Jewish person by blood and I’m ashamed of the Israel state and what they’ve done

And all everyone can talk about is Lindsey Clancy

And how no one supported her.

Well, she had baby sitters, she had medication, she had help.

I remember when I was going through severe depression, severe anxiety, being physically abused by a stranger who I thought loved me (I had NO ONE to help)

And I wouldn’t ever hurt my kids, much less kill them.

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Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

Fanfic account

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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    Written by Melissa Ingoldsby