Cautious Abandon

A mother forced out of her life — and herself

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She drove with cautious abandon, top-down, the thick summer air swirling through her heart. She blasted the jungle sounding rhythms of Deep Forest to wash away the day.

Girlfriends, cosmos, cake; nothing seemed to work. The prescriptions were still neatly lined up in the medicine cabinet, resounding her disgrace, no matter how good…