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Peter/Sandra is a terrible person who used a woman as cover, cheated on her, emotionally neglected her, manipulated her into swapping spouses (trafficking) to try to keep the marriage alive, then financial and emotionally abandoned the children.  I get it, hurt people hurt people, but that’s not an excuse.  Go to therapy and take care of your responsibilities.  When asked if there would be or ever was an attempt to find the kids the response was basically “forget that!  It would be hard and complicated and other people might have an emotion and I might have to take responsibility so no way!”

Despicable person.  I get that the job is to clean up the messes of others, and maybe in some misguided manner that is an attempt to make amends with the world, but that does nothing for the people that were injured by continued neglect.

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I’m astounded by the determination of the author to deadname Sandra, she goes so far as to create a pseudonym for her growing up and continually uses he/him pronouns. I was expecting to hear much more about murder scenes etc but almost all the talk of trauma cleaning is about hoarders which wasn’t quite as interesting as I’d hoped. 

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Wow, what is this book? Genuinely... what is it supposed to be about? It's like the author is confused about whether to centre Sandra, trauma cleaning clients, or themself. They frequently diverge on tangents about their own past and traumas... why? I can see the logic for some inclusion of the trauma cleaning clients, to the point of illustrating Sandra's relationships and manner with them, but these chapters tend to veer off too deep into the clients' personal lives too. This is not even touching on how problematic the chapters on Sandra's past are. The author disclaims the accuracy of Sandra's memory, then goes on to describe most events in extreme (and often graphic) detail - so where are they getting this information from? This is really only disclosed in the chapters where Linda has provided additional detail. The telling of Sandra's upbringing is riddled with deadnaming and slurs, and I see why the author made this choice, but they really should have included a caveat preempting this and explaining why certain terms should no longer be used. TL;DR this is a messy, problematic biography that doesn't really know whose story it's trying to tell.

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