The Chains that Bind me
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We've all read stories where the child has to grow up in a broken home due to death?
But what happens when the mother turns into someone we don't even know after the dad commits suicide to escape this mess of a life?
Find out as you follow Elaine May through her journey in the swamps of Louisiana, with her psycho mother, while she handles her teenage years and struggles to hold her household together. She feels bound on the inside and out because of the toll her mother is taking on her emotionally, mentally, and physically, but she hasn't experienced real confinement.... yet.
How will this end? Read to find out.
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