Recently, I was at a party where someone asked me what my “mom deal” was as an icebreaker. I admired the moxie of posing such a weighty question to a stranger, so I decided to be honest. I told them that, due to my mother’s mental illness and intermittent psychosis, we had been somewhat estranged over the course of my childhood. The temperature check on…
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