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A local woman missing- Mary Kubica

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That’s when Mom turned the knife around and stabbed herself in

the abdomen. Easy and quick. According to coroner reports, she

managed to get her own liver and bleed out. She had a nasty lump

on the back of her head, too, from whacking something on the way

down.

I turn on a light. The basement becomes yellow. I go down the

steps and there you are, sprawled on the concrete floor.

At first glance, I think you’re dead.

But then I see that your chest is moving. You’re breathing. You’re

not dead; you’re asleep.

You passed on a soft, warm bed to come sleep on the cold, hard

basement floor in the dark. Because for eleven years, it’s all you’ve

known. In some effed up way, you find comfort in it, being down here

in our dark, dingy basement.

It doesn’t get much more fucked up than that.

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