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Pit Pat called last night. He told me he had just gotten off the phone with our mother. He told me she said I was acting like a rebellious teenager. I laughed because I've heard her say this before and I think she's spot on. You damn skippy I'm acting like a rebellious teenager, striving for self-reliance and independence. It's just that normal people tend to do this when they are seventeen, not twenty-seven, because normal people have parents that will actually let them go be adults. Those people don't have soppy, co-dependent, mentally ill mothers that hang on them like a herd of drowning elephants in wool sweaters.