Amalia's Story, Chapter Fifty
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #3:
"So -- !"

"Right. So we're in my mother's car, and she's yipping and yapping about how she just wants to get us kids into college so she can get the hell out of our father's life once and for all. And l'm sitting there and I'm literally thinking to myself, I'm ten years old."

"So your mother -- "

"Right. So then, it's only four short years later, and he's all like, No , I'm not waiting another four years to get your loser second son that I told you I never wanted and would not help raise in any way, ever, to get into some crappy college! I'm leaving now!"

"So in terms of your mother's story . . . "

"Right. This was the ultimate, the crucial betrayal."

"How did this affect her?"

"Not well. I guess, I would say, she had a complete nervous break-down."

"Was she hospitalized?"

"No."

"Was she diagnosed?"

"Um . . . Not that I know of. I know she did at least start on some -- "

"So you can't really say she had a complete nervous break-down. See, -- But we have to stop."

"Good."

= Louis Jacobucci
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