I threw myself on top of her, shaking her, crying so hard I couldn't breathe."Mom... please don't go..."She looked at me. Her eyes were hollow, not a flicker of light left.I remembered when I was little, she wasn't like this.She used to smile, sing, hold me and tell me stories.But then Mom’s sister Vanessa came, and everything changed.Vanessa told Dad through tears that Mom had stolen the love of her foster parents. But Mom had only been cast out for years and was the real daughter, finally come home.Vanessa spread lies about her too. Said Mom was calculating and manipulative, that she'd drugged Dad to sleep her way into his life.Dad had grown up with Vanessa. He believed her.After that, he loved Mom and hated her in equal measure, constantly using hypnosis to test whether she truly loved him.The first time, he pretended to go bankrupt, a total collapse. Mom didn't leave. She hauled bricks at a construction site, washed dishes at a restaurant, worked herself to bleeding hands
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