When She Returned

by Lucinda Berry

There were two types of people in group—those who didn’t like to speak about their lost loved ones and kept their memories close to them, like carefully guarded secrets, and those who couldn’t stop talking about them.

I’d never forgotten those years I’d spent listening to him describe how losing Kate had been like losing part of his body and that he was only half a person without her.

“You are tied to the life you created when you were a teenage girl to survive, but that life no longer serves you.

It usually takes about two years to deprogram a person who’s been indoctrinated into a cult,

The pain of being alive when someone you loved dearly was gone.