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Pounding in my head. Ba bum ba bum. “You can’t leave me!” It’s still years later and the memory of that day still burns at the back of my mind like it happened yesterday. My mom; someone who is an essential person in a young girls life, was leaving me behind to spend 24 months in a federal correction center in Northern California. Surely there must be a mistake, my kind-hearted mom could never commit acts of fraud. Could she? It seems she could. My mother’s criminal charges were white-collar (nonviolent crime) which means she was expected to escort herself to the Correction center. The day she left was in late October; days before Halloween, the dark sky matched my inner being, swirled with disorder and despondency. At the time I don’t think

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