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Hilary
Sometimes I thought my mother could move more than mountains. Entire islands maybe. Well, it was a better way of thinking than acknowledging that she had money to buy everything and everyone.
After leaving the hospital on Sunday evening, my parents escorted me to their house—no way they were leaving me alone at my apartment in such a state. Even Hannah spent the night at my parents’ house with us.
Hannah’s and Leo’s wedding was next Saturday, so we had scheduled a three-day visit to a local, famous spa for all the girls right before the wedding. But with my bruises—the ones on my body and the ones in my soul—my mother called the spa and was able to squeeze Hannah and me earlier.
They both had planned everything while I rested in my old bedroom on Monday morning. Hannah even
