CHAPTER 4
Gone on Long Enough
Two days later, Priscilla looked out the window of her Delta Airlines flight at the clouds. She guessed she must be halfway to San Francisco. She had changed flights in Atlanta, and since then the flight attendants had served lunch.
But Priscilla was in no hurry to get to San Francisco and start another fraught chapter in her relationship with her mother.
The white clouds were, in their way, so calming. Priscilla told herself she could use something to quell her anxiety. Remembering some of the more troubling aspects of her history with Liza, Priscilla reflected how, by comparison, the love she shared with Nelson was pure and simple. Maybe there were just too many ambiguous layers of relationship between a mother and a daughter. Or were a mother and a daug
