Recently, a boy that grew up in the house next door to us hung himself. He was a decent kid but had the same mother you describe in your story and a missing father.
From as far back as I can remember, I would hear her screaming at her kids, calling them the most despicable names and spewing the most vile insults at them I’ve ever heard in my life.
Her other son is in jail and her daughter got pregnant at 13.
And she will claim that she was always there for them, she won’t know what on earth could have happened.
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