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Without my mother : a daughter's search for the mother who abandoned her

Without my mother : a daughter's search for the mother who abandoned her

Book 2019

"One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother stepped into her baby-blue Dodge Dart and drove away, leaving behind Melissa and her brothers. Rarely seeing their mother as they were growing up, they blamed themselves for her leaving, turning to each other for support and seeking out often destructive ways to cope with living without their mom. Decades later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying....