The Scapegoat Daughter Survives
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It had been eight years since I cut ties with my mother, and of course, we ran into each other in the one place I thought I was safe: The Butter & Bloom Bakery on the west side. She was there to pick up a cake for my sister, Willa. I was the one behind the counter, an employee.
After a long, brittle silence, she spoke first. Her voice was layered with a complexity I didn’t care to decode. “Eight years away from your father and me, and this is how you’ve ended up?” Her eyes were red-rimmed, but the emotion behind them—pity, guilt, disapproval—was deliberately unreadable to me.
