Breanna was a goth, a cool city kid with black hair, blunt bangs, and a knack for liquid eyeliner. She might have been the exact kind of girl I’d be friends with, or who I’d want to actually be, but right now she was my mom’s friend and confidante. While I had discussed my mom’s illness with my friends’ parents, I had never thought to talk about it with my own mother. And now there was a surrogate me. Breanna could share and understand the one thing about my mother that I never could, her disease. Later, after they were both released, they’d hang out and watch movies together, grown-up movies,
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This is amazing.
Also, shout out Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping'!!
