Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2018 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 36

The Stories
WE TELL OURSELVES
BY DEBORAH KEVIN
W
hen I was twelve, my
mother kidnapped me. She tried
to take my younger brother, but
he turned her away.
A year earlier, we’d come home
to an empty house to discover
that my mother had taken all her
belongings and left. No note. No
money. Not much food in the
refrigerator. My father aboard an
aircraft carrier near Vietnam. The
rest of our family six states away.
When my father arrived back
home, he moved my brother and
me to Pennsylvania to live with
our grandparents. There was no
discussion about what happened
to my mother. In fact, we never
heard from her. Not on our
birthdays. Not for Christmas. Not
even when my brother underwent
emergency open heart surgery.
Not until the day she appeared at
my school.
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