I went to college without my mother. She took her life when I was sixteen. Before that we made music together. Despite her depression she encouraged me. In return I mothered her.

You could say we were symbiotic , meaning we fed off of each other. It was as though we were each other. In this painful relationship

I succeeded in music while she played the piano.

The summer before she died, i was ...

The stylist was Jane Garden, the plainest girl in Prairie, a small town of three thousand people. Her boss, Katz Swanson, had been Leary about hiring Jane but changed her mind. Though Jane was quiet and eccentric, the older people stood in line to have Jane cut their hair.

Until today there had been no issues, however that changed late afternoon.

At five thirty a former classmate of Plain Jane...

Robin had driven home from summer school so she could place a bouquet of flowers on her mother’s grave. She had just spent the night with her best friend, Wendy, who lived with her father. One if the reasons they were best friends, was not having had a normal childhood. Both having long brown hair and brown eyes, and thoughtful personalities, seeing each other was a treat. In high school the two ...