Walk Away, a memoir
First Step
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7 min readFeb 1, 2021
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In the summer after my sophomore year of high school, my mother returned unexpectedly from one of her angry abandonments of the family. My boyfriend and I were sliding our nakedness together in the finished basement of my parents’ oceanfront home when I heard the kitchen door slam shut and her high heels tick-tick-ticking against the flagstone floor. By the time she started down the stairway, Jimmy and I’d…