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Her next words took me by surprise. I lay as still as I could, barely breathing, afraid that if I moved she would stop speaking her heart.__y mom wanted six children. She only got me, and that sucks for her because I was a total weirdo.___ou were not,_ I said.She twisted her head up to look at me.__ used to line my lips in black eyeliner and sit cross-legged on the kitchen table _ meditating.___ot that bad,_ I said. __rying out for attention.___kay, when I was twelve I started writing letters to my birth mother because I wanted to be adopted.__ shook my head. __our childhood sucked, you wanted a new reality.__he snorted air through her nose. __ thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her.___ctive imagination,_ I countered. She was becoming more insistent, her little body wriggling in my grip.__ used to make paper out of dryer lint.___erdy.___ wanted to be one with nature, so I started boiling grass and drinking it with a little bit of dirt for sugar.__ paused. __kay, that__ weird.___hank you!_ she said. Then, she got serious again. __y mom just loved me through all of it.