Those two years before Katy got the fuck outta this shithole town herself, while you were off gleefully making your first adult mistakes in the Big City, were a dark spot in your correspondence. It was during this time that Katy pushed into real rebellion, which you only learned of secondhand, and long after the fact. House calls from police, weeklong disappearances, a physical altercation with her mom. She found comfort in food, and gained so much weight in such a short amount of time she had a mini-stroke at the age of seventeen. The family became very careful not to refer to her as the Bad
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