The account that follows would render this claim laughable if it were not so sad. In a note at the beginning of the book, editor Lorin Stein describes FSG's decision to publish it: In addition to being a "work of art" and, hopefully, a "source of hope and validation to others," he writes, "the situation it describes (though a perennial subject of art and myth) has rarely been described this way, from within." Indeed, The Incest Diary bears many similarities to other narratives about incest—the secrecy, the shame, the specificity of the psychological and social repercussions—but the author's relentless focus on the incest and its aftermath distances The Incest Diary from other works. Incest is often a theme, an underlying motivation or explanation, but it is rarely the point. Tiffany Haddish, 43, is seen for the FIRST TIME since her DUI arrest after she fell asleep at the wheel in the middle of the street He said that if I was going to persist in my allegations about him having raped me, then I was no longer his daughter. He told me that I was dead to him. I can only assume that he'd spoken with a lawyer, and that this is why he started using the word allegations, and why he no longer admitted to our incest, but denied it. Fears grow over captain of yacht which set off from Plymouth in solo challenge race and was due to arrive in Ireland seven days ago

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