Surviving With Two Runaway Daughters

The Runaways: Amanda and Stephanie

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• University of Oregon
• Portland State University

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Everyone at the table is crying, and the girls reach for their mother’s hand. “But you know, I have this,” she says. “Especially my intellectual self, I always say to myself, if we had to go through that to get here, I’m okay with that. But I missed them so much. And I can’t get that back.”

LIVE THROUGH THIS: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR OF RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS AND RECLAIMED LOVE |Debra Gwartney | Houghton Mifflin | 240 pages | $24