MISSING
Chapter 3: OUT OF HABIT
An observer can easily describe the situation: “oh, unfortunate.”
For her, having the additional burden of being the disadvantaged participant, the situation is unfair in addition to being unfortunate. Tragically unfair. Fate is unfair.
She vomits; kicking and thrashing, imploding into herself and into the toilet, into the sewage. Life is not fair. Life is not fair.
But women have such things as their pride to attend to. Who will admit at youth the most common of quandaries: I am vulnerable, I feel very vulnerable. Who moreover will do so openly and without any blame or fear of exposure: I am vulnerable and exposed. A flower in the wind has only one secret: to conceal its vulnerability to the wind.
What mother can receive such an observation from her delicate darling: “Mother, I am overexposed” – without feeling responsible.
What mother does not feel responsible for her child. What mother is not responsible for her child?
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