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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Homosex. 2015 Oct 26;63(5):601–632. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1111108
Julio: I packed some things into a bag. I didn't know where I was going. I slept on the street. I was outside. I packed some things into a bag. I walked – because the street was better than being in that house.
Daniel: Why?
Julio: Because I got so sick of it. I got sick of getting slapped and knocked around and pushed into chairs and forced to stay up all night, beating after beating after beating, spit on, trash, arguments, yelling, screaming. I can't stand the confusion. I can't take the confusion. I can't take that. I walked out the door, and I said, “I'll shoot myself before I deal with this another night.”