A 3-year-old is strapped to a chair, his piercing cries enduring for hours while his mother does drugs in the next room. A young girl grimaces as her father stitches her open head wound without anesthetic. Determined not to deprive her siblings of Christmas presents—as they would be, her father warned, if she went to the hospital—the girl grits her teeth until the home surgery is complete.
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