A Kidnapping Story Inspired Readers to Tell Their Stories of Trauma
Briefly

I began to open them with one hand over my eyes. The story was originally just about Teich... but as the article began its discussion of trauma, I chose to elucidate what I was seeing in him by sharing a traumatic experience of my own: the 2007 birth of my older son.
Most of them praised it; two different ones told me I had embarrassed myself... But almost all of the emailers also included another story: their own. Email after email contained a kind of testimony, the simple reiteration of a time when things went wrong for them, like my son's birth...
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