Once a person starts using meth regularly, their life span shortens drastically. I think it was five years ago, right around when I turned fourteen, when I caught her shooting up meth for the first time. Over the years, her addictions became more noticeable and a lot deadlier. I realized this around the age of nine, but back then, her addictions were limited to men, alcohol, and gambling. It’s as if her eyeballs have stopped working. She’s staring at the picture of Mother Teresa, but she’s not actually looking at it. Janean is lying on the couch in the same position she was in when I left for my shift at McDonald’s eight hours ago. That’s how my mother has spent her entire life. You focus heavily on the darkness in people in the hopes of masking the true shade of your own darkness. I think when you’re the worst of people, finding the worst in others becomes a survival tactic of sorts.

I once asked my mother, Janean, why she keeps a picture of Mother Teresa on our living room wall. In a trailer house, the walls crumble beneath your fingernails like chalk if you so much as scratch at them. The walls of a trailer house aren’t made of the same stuff walls in a normal house are made of.

There’s a picture of Mother Teresa that hangs on our living room wall where a television would go if we could afford the kind of television that hangs on the wall, or even a home with the kind of walls that could hold a television. Too bad neither has any idea that a rip current is about to drag both their hearts out to sea. But with their upcoming futures sending them to opposite ends of the country, the two decide to maintain only a casual summer fling. Yet, the connection between them is too intense to ignore. But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows.ĭevastated and anxious for the summer to go by quickly, Beyah has no time or patience for Samson, the wealthy, brooding guy next door. Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, Colleen Hoover's novel follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds.Īfter a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us and It Starts with Us!

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