Jennifer Brown

"It's just that I wasn't paying attention before," she said, half to me and half to Dr. Hieler. "And look what happened. People think I'm horrible parent and, I don't know, I think maybe they're right. A mother should know these things. A mother shouldn't be surprised like I was. The more I let her go... the more I'm affraid that I'll have more deaths on my concience."
[...] I had changed Mom. Had changed her role as parent. No longer was Her sole purpose so easy and clear-cut as it had been on the day I was born. No longer was her job to protect me from the rest of the word. Now her job was to protect the rest of the world from me.
And that was so unfair