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The day my husband's childhood sweetheart died, he brought our daughter a rag doll that smelled like medicine. From that moment on, the girl never went anywhere without it. I thought it was strange and begged her to stop carrying it, but my pleas were met with furious resistance. She even started accusing me of abuse and driving a wedge between us—pushing our marriage toward divorce. Then one afternoon, I caught my usually distant husband cradling our daughter with startling tenderness. At the same time, a thin, eerie female voice called from the bedroom, "Why don't we kill Mom together?"