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Stella,

“Stella, is that you, honey?” Mom asks me when I walk through the door.

“Yes, mom it’s me.”

“How did your first session with Dr. Elizabeth go?” Of course, that would be the first thing she would ask me when I walked through the door. “It went find mom I say walking into the kitchen where she is... throwing something together for supper.

“Well, that’s good, honey. Why don’t you run on up and get yourself a shower, then when you get back down here, we can talk more about your day. That sound good.”

“No, mom it really doesn’t sound good,” I tell her. “What I want to do is go upstairs and forget about the day all together, okay?” I snap at her.

“Stella Rose Savage, what has gotten into you? You have never talked to me like that before. Start talking right now, young lady?”

“Damnit... mom, I don’t want to talk, I don’t want to think are anything else about what happened to me. Why can’t you and Dakoda understand and respect that