Generations and Family Boundaries
Family Drama · fiction

The Walls We Chose Again

Eleven months after the custody hearing, my mother opened an envelope at the kitchen counter and threw up into the sink. I know because Autumn was standing ten feet away when it happened. By then, neither of us lived in that house anymore. Neither of us had slept there for almost a year. And, ironically, the...

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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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Generations and Family Boundaries

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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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