Lived Experience: Julie Baker

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I’m Julie and I’m 21. I know I am supposed to love my Grandma, but she makes it really hard. She has always been mean. To Grandpa and to anyone else who crossed her path.

People would minimize it, saying she was just a woman, how could she do any harm to anyone? But it did hurt. It hurt everyone who was in her life. Even Grandpa. Even though he is 6 foot 3 and Grandma is only 5 foot 2.

Grandpa would often get upset and say “that woman ruins everything” especially when Grandma was verbally abusive to the grandchildren. She would control their money and who Grandpa could talk to or spend time with.

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