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Madeline had a plain, dull face that only a mother could love, even though hers hadn\u2019t. She\u2019d been a clever child, clever enough to realize early on that fairness was a fairy tale, and clever enough to realize that it wasn\u2019t her mother, really, who was to blame, even if she couldn\u2019t help but blame her. Whenever Madeline\u2019s stepfather had told her to get out of his sight, her mother had repeated the phrase in a ghostly echo. When Madeline emancipated herself at sixteen, she figured that was the end of that, and she looked ahead to a future of possibilities. | Copyright 2018 by Joanna Parypinski. Narrated by Bonnie MacBird.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices