Claudia shoved the barefoot child through the open terrace doors into the snow and threw the gift after him
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Chapter 10
The old winter discipline ended publicly.
I gathered the capos and family elders.
No children present.
I said:
“No barefoot punishment. No cold exposure. No food withholding. No making children prove toughness through fear.”
One older man laughed.
“You survived.”
“Yes.”
“So?”
I looked at him.
“Survival is not endorsement.”
Silence.
That phrase stayed.
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Too many families confuse what did not kill us with what made us better.
Some things merely left scars that learned to speak as tradition.
