Great Regulars: "Romped" is too playful a word

for an emotionally and physically traumatized adult to use in looking back at a childhood event. And if the father were actually beating and abusing the child in an alcoholic rage, the child would not be clinging the father’s shirt, he would be trying to run away from him.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Misreading 'My Papa's Waltz'

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