"She has DID," she answered, suddenly unable to look back at Jeff. She looked down at her feet, then up toward the trees, then at the edge of the trampoline before finally meeting his gaze again. It was stupid, no one else had judged her for it. "Dissociative Identity Disorder. It's like when something traumatic happens to someone and they just break into a bunch of different people. So... sometimes she's my mom and sometimes she's Buck, the Vietnam Vet who drinks, smokes, watches a lot of porn and kicks the shit out of people who are mean to me."
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Date: 2011-04-29 12:38 pm (UTC)