“By this time, my relationship with my mother masked over my anguish of what I thought was a lack of a childhood. This turned into a drive to forget and to make excuses for my own actions. And so became the birth of my story, my evolution of my excuses…
“Screaming at Paul she ran down the street toward him. The steaming rage coming out of this wild woman immobilized me with complete terror. All sound left my ears, my legs had piercing pain, and my body shook. I became gelatinous, oozing into my seat with the seatbelt as my…