![]() "She spoiled me rotten and let me do anything, probably because she felt guilty for hiding who I really was." A Shocking Revelation There were no boundaries, she says of her mother, who died several years ago. When Melissa was 14, her much-older lover was allowed to move in for a time, too. Her mother's boyfriends often lived with them, and she let her teenage daughter have guys stay overnight. "I had to be her caretaker," Melissa says, sharing about her mother shoplifting, peeing in public, and "other weird behaviors." Their home life got difficult. ![]() Then, her father committed suicide, and soon after, she says, her mother's mental health began to decline. Until she was 40, Melissa* thought she was an only child. For the first decade of her life, she grew up happily in a suburban, upper-middle class area of the Great Lakes. ![]()
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