"You have a committee in your head telling you destructive things
        and the chairperson of that committee is your mother." --a therapist

        Sadie says: You're not
        going out in that.
        She says: I can't wait
        to leave this hellhole.
        She says: You children
        will never learn...Goddamn you,
        goddamn you, goddamn you!
        And she says: I wish I'd
        never been born.
        She says: what do you
        have to be sad about?
        And: I love you like
        angry death, my sons and
        daughter, my
        only hope.

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