Ok... a little more down to earth...are you the only child?

No. Youngest, only girl of four. Two have died from drugs. One left and is an aging hippie stuck in the seventies. We both shudder when he calls.

This is all about the neighbors. They think I am a mythical creature. This "figment of her imagination" that she talks about but no one ever sees. She does have a life and gets around...but at lunch they all talk about their kids. This one does this/that one does that. My mother talks about the "myth" that is her daughter who lives six miles away...the neighbors just wink.

She knows about PTSD...she has it too.