Dear cali sister:

I feel a mixture of excitement and concern about your decision. Knowing as much as I know about your parents and you and your sister, I am all for it if it is the right time for you.

Let’s consider then the concerns you brought up: “There is no doubt they will immediately drive over or come to my job… I know they will come banging on my door. I know they will hang out on my street. They are relentless and will not give up. I can see them showing up to the hospital I work at”-

– reminds me  of what your sister wrote when she considered cutting contact with them she was afraid that they will be so distraught that they will involve the whole family trying to find her and will end up in a mental hospital from heartbreak.

But that didn’t happen,  did it?

I mean, Cali Chica, whom you referred to before as your mother’s obsession, when she cut contact with your mother, your mother didn’t end up in a mental hospital. Instead, she just returned from another vacation abroad (“a day or two  ago..they were not in this country”)?

anita