Not mother of the year

My mother used to regularly threaten to "just disappear". She spoke of it so longingly and so often that I honestly wished she would. Thanks, we don't want you either, now sod off and let us get on with our lives, would you?

Still, it's almost impossible to understand someone actually doing it. I think what particularly gets me is that she took one daughter and left the other. And that she left £25. Because £25, clearly, is all a teenager needs from her mother, ever.