Of all the things that required catching up, perhaps the most challenging was romance. At the time I met Susan, she was nearly fifty and had not yet had a full sexual experience. “I’d like to experience love. But do I know what love is? So far, my mother’s it.” Susan laughed. “My poor mother. She signed me up for three different dating services, simultaneously. It was grueling. But I looked at it as a way to grow developmentally. The schizophrenia has given me the ability to find something inside of me, parts of myself that I might not have been able to reach otherwise.” Susan has also
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