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Lisa
96 days since leaving Grace
“No,” Lisa said. That was it. She was done. The word “no” had never felt so much like an entire argument as it did right now.
Mother didn’t seem to catch on. “We have an appointment.”
“You have an appointment, Mother. And you should go to it, if that’s what you want.”
“But— It’s— I made it for you.”
“No. I’m not going to any more of your hand-picked ‘specialists,’ Mother. Not a single one of them has been helpful to me at all.”
“But what about Susan? She was helpful, and I still don’t know why you didn’t like her—”
“She was helpful to you. Which is fine. You should go see someone if you want to. But she wasn’t helpful to me, so I don’t plan to see her again. Or any of the other ones.”
Mother’s eyes narrowed. “Because you liked that man, the one
