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SESSION #4

CLEO McHUGH:

I almost texted my mom after our last session. I don’t know—to say hi. It’s not like I suddenly forgive her or something. But I did miss her for the first time in a long time.

EVELYN BAUER:

It sounds like you had a very special relationship when you were younger. Not everyone has that.

CM:

I thought we did. Or she was special to me. But that was when I was little, before Charlie. As soon as I went to middle school, it was like … she, like, started slowly shutting off, disappearing. I used to have dreams sometimes of her getting sucked into a black hole in outer space. I didn’t remember that until the other day …