What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross

Author:Helen Klein Ross
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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A detective called me on my cell. He said he was calling on behalf of a Marilyn Mornay who had contacted him because she had a daughter who’d been abducted in 1990 and thought I might be her. Now she was sending the cops after me? That made me freak.

At first, I refused to take the test. The detective told me the chances were slim that I was the baby. He just wanted to rule me out. He said I could take my time about deciding whether or not to take it, I didn’t need to give him an answer right away. But I told him he shouldn’t wait around for a yes.

What made me decide to take the test was getting into a fight with Lucy.

She wanted to go to a beach for New Year’s, but I wanted to go out with my friends and my boyfriend. It was nice of her to offer a trip to Puerto Rico and all, but New Year’s was important to me! It would be the last one I had while I was in college. Who knows if I’d even be able to celebrate next year. I was applying to law schools, and if I got into a good one, I wouldn’t have any time to party. Also, this would be the last New Year’s with my friends before we all graduated and started real lives. We had a thing for New Year’s. My best friend and I always wore gold outfits. I loved my mom but I really didn’t want to spend New Year’s with her.

When Lucy gets mad, she looks like an alien—her eyes get small, her forehead crinkles, she pushes her tongue into her cheek and makes it bulge out, which is how she looked when I told her to go to Puerto Rico without me.

Around eleven that night, I was on my way out. I’d just gotten home for winter break, I was going out to meet friends at a club. Lucy was in ratty pajamas and fluffy slippers and her hair was a mess. She was yelling at me for what I was wearing! She was saying my skirt was an invite to trouble on the subway, and as I watched her mouth move, I thought, This woman has no idea what she’s talking about. This woman who raised me is actually crazy.

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