Generations and Family Boundaries
Family Drama · fiction

The Life Beyond Their Porch

The first time my mother threw me out of her house, I was sixteen years old, missing my left leg, and still learning how to stand without falling. The second time she stood in front of me, twenty years later, she was crying in the foyer of my penthouse and asking me for one million dollars. The money was for...

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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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Generations and Family Boundaries

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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