The Unseen Secret Behind Joy V.’s Enigmatic Lightkeeping Journey Revealed
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After finding Nathan, I was plagued by the thought: What, if anything, do I tell our parents?
In healthier families, this decision would be a no-brainer: Of course they needed to know. But my family was not healthy. Our mother in particular was volatile, prone to self-harm, likely due to undiagnosed borderline personality disorder. Nathan and I had long ago decided she had the emotional capacity of a young teenager. Our father was more stable, at least in his old age. When we were kids, he had lost his temper at times and hit Nathan on more than one occasion. In recent years, though, he had shed the anger, even becoming our mother’s caretaker as her mental health declined.
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