Across Generations
Family Drama · fiction

The Pain Her Mother Believed

At 3:18 in the morning, I stood outside our bathroom listening to my fifteen-year-old daughter cry into the sink. There are sounds a mother recognizes immediately. A tired cry. An angry cry. The embarrassed tears of a teenager who has just had her heart broken. This wasn't any of those. Emily was trying not to make noise. That was what...

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

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Across Generations

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

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