[Juneberry]

Dear Mother:

Thank you so much for hiding again. Father and I are already completely broke when we're on nothing more then Social Security Disability- we relied on the income you sent us once a month to help us pay the bills. Now we're trying to get that up and running thanks to the government of two separate states, but they can't even find you to do so! Why do you feel you can't even help your daughter, after vanishing from my life ten years ago? Was I really that much of a burden to you? I know you wanted to have me because you'd hoped pregnancy would allow you to rid of your Crohn's for good, and I know that by being born a month premature I ruined that hope after eight months of blissfully not having to deal with the problem...But you ruined my life even before I was born thanks to your poor genetics along with father's and your drug use even when I was in the womb. Can't you at least be kind enough, after 18 years of medical torture and mental abuse- after ten years of realizing my mother didn't even care- to have some sort of heart and help both me and the man you supposedly loved since you were thirty or so?

Sorry for the hostility, but I really needed to get that point across.

From,
The Daughter You Left Behind.