She Left the Family Home at 66—and We Tried to Bring Her Back

hit her head?

What if she’s lying there stubbornly waiting to prove a point?

And then, creeping behind all of that, the darker thought I didn’t want to admit:

What if she did this because she didn’t want us anymore?

It sounds childish, I know. Like a grown man afraid of abandonment.

But when your mother says, “I’m leaving. I’m not coming back,” something continue reading …