“I’m just telling you what Mom told me. She said Grandma came home one night completely hysterical, ranting on about what a bad person she was. Mom was pretty sure something awful happened with the married guy, but Grandma never said what. Mom was only like ten or eleven. It was super traumatizing, as you can imagine. After that, Grandma never mentioned the married guy again. To the point where if Mom mentioned him, Grandma would pretend she didn’t know who Mom was talking about.” “Because Mom made the whole thing up,” Jane said. When Jane was a kid, her mother sometimes said, “My mother was
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