Grandmother Takes Her Asthmatic Grandson’s Inhaler at Christmas—Then a Hidden Custody Record Claims She Controls His Medical Care
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Chapter 19 - WHY LINDA DID ITThe evaluator asked Linda:
“What are you afraid will happen if Allison remains fully responsible for Evan?”
Linda answered:
“She’ll miss something.”
“Such as?”
“Medication.”
“Has she?”
“No.”
“School?”
“She’s been late.”
“How often?”
“Twice.”
“Medical care?”
“She waits too long.”
“According to which physician?”
Linda became frustrated.
“I know my daughter.”
That sentence sat at the center of everything.
She knew the twenty-year-old me.
The grieving me.
The injured me.
The medicated me.
The me who once needed her.
She could not update the file in her head.
When I became capable again, she experienced it as temporary.
She remained on watch.
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Love had become surveillance.
Fear had become entitlement.
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Chapter 20 - GEORGE CHOOSESLinda expected George to support the guardianship petition.
Chapter 21 - THE GUARDIANSHIP HEARINGThere was no dramatic final witness pulling out a secret envelope.
Chapter 22 - LINDA’S LEGAL CONSEQUENCELinda eventually accepted a negotiated criminal resolution.
Chapter 23 - THE FIRST LETTERLinda wrote Evan a letter ten months after Christmas.
Chapter 24 - EVAN’S QUESTIONEvan read the letter.
Chapter 25 - THE BLUE INHALER BECOMES BORINGTwo years after Christmas, Evan was twelve.
