After His Mother Died, Adam Smith Found The Secret in the Freezer.

This woman sounds exactly like my mom. I’m pretty sure my mother didn’t have a dead baby in the freezer, but all Barbara’s behaviors, her drinking, her berating of people around her, unwillingness to deal with her own problems — it’s all the same.

My mom also often claimed to be pregnant to worry me and my sister, or to try to disturb us. Why she thought this would disturb us I don’t know. I wonder if she ever really was? I suspect not, but as with Barbara it was impossible to tell which of my mother’s claims were lies and which had any sort of veracity.