Angie’s mother kicked her out when she was 16 and pregnant. Decades on, Angie’s daily dialogue with her god is how she continues to make sense of her crazy life.
Angie was my best friend in middle high school, in Geelong. We clung to each other, careening together across the black ice of adolescence with no brakes.
First, she apologises for the repetitive nature of her dialogue. She speaks in short-phrasal loops and keeps going back to the same story afresh. She has brain damage, she’s living with an inoperable brain tumour, alcoholism, short-term memory loss and ADHD diagnosed at the age of 42. That diagnosis made sense to her and, hearing it now, made sense to me. She had certainly displayed low impulse control in our wild days when I was breathless to keep up in her wake..
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