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An emotionally somnambulant year and a half later, her father just as suddenly announced that her mother was alive and, actually, they were on their way to see her just then. When mother and daughter were reunited, Case writes that her parents informed her that her mother had been sick with a potentially fatal disease and fled to Hawaii for treatment, so her daughter would not have to see her suffer. Case was too young and vulnerable to question the story. \u201cI forgave her with such desperate haste, I didn\u2019t even have time to be mad,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

Her mother flickered in and out of her life for the next several decades, but even when they were living under the same roof, Case came to experience her mother like \u201ca deer, always just out of reach,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

After a final, failed attempt at reconnection when Case was in her late 30s \u2014 her mother moved in with her when she was living in Tucson and suddenly left without a word \u2014 Case cut ties with her mother for good. Shortly after, as she writes in the book, she had a revelation: Perhaps her mother had never been sick at all. The thought was at once crushing and profoundly liberating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was much I could have forgiven,\u201d she writes. \u201cBut it was the grift of her that ground that down \u2014 that love held out to dance before me, always snatched back just as I reached out my arms for it.\u201d (Attempts to reach Case\u2019s mother for comment were unsuccessful.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I was an over-sharer out of desperation, like, \u2018Please, notice me,\u2019\u201d Case said, noting that there is nothing in the book about her childhood that her closest friends do not already know. Newman, though, is relieved that others \u201ccan now read her story\u201d and understand the scope of what she has endured. \u201cSometimes, when Neko was being kind of hard to deal with, I\u2019d always have that in the back of my mind,\u201d he said. \u201cLike, I can\u2019t tell you guys, but holy [expletive].\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if any of these revelations were difficult to disclose in such a public manner, Case just shrugged. \u201cSo much has been done to me where I haven\u2019t been considered,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t have any guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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