A devoted mom’s inexplicable behavior leaves her family and her friends wondering what went wrong, and how to react. “My mom saw your mom in the grocery store,” my daughter announced to a neighborhood friend, a girl about her age whose family ours has known for years. The comment seemed innocuous enough. Without hesitation, the girl retorted: “Did your mom say hi to her? Because nobody says hi to my mom anymore.” The words carried in them the stinging truth, as only the young can deliver. For days afterward, they buzzed in my head like a fly I wanted to swat away but couldn’t. In those few, choice words, the young girl had summed up a side of the story that no one had bothered to tell. But first, the other side of the story. On the raw day in February when I first learned the part of the story about the Smiths (not their… Read More
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