After making it to the two-month mark
with no major problems, Mary now set her sites on six months. Her
self-confidence was improving each day, and the longer she was away from
the group home experience, the more she was regaining her ability to trust
people again. She'd still call me at work with concerns about homework or
to just chat, but she was calling me less and less as time went on.
She was also growing more confident each day that no one was going to
take her away, abandon her, or try to separate her from me. It was
still a struggle to get her to do her chores and homework, however, but she
wasn't getting into trouble, and that was huge.
She wanted to know what had happened during the group home experience — from my point of view —
because she hadn't been told anything (or told lies). I wanted her to
know the truth, and so I told her what I knew about that period of time. I didn't say anything about her mother because I wanted her to
have a good relationship with her. But in retrospect, maybe I should
have; maybe Mary would still be with me today if I had told her the
truth about everyone involved in her two-year experience in
the group homes. I would sometimes email her mom to remind her that
she should see Mary, but that seldom happened.
Eventually Mary made it to the
six-month mark (September 2009), and she was extremely proud of
herself for getting this far. The following is an email (with a
reply) that she sent to her attorney letting her know about her success.
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