Syd's unseen mother, Candace, is overwhelmed, complicated, and stretched thin by a life that never gave her much room to breathe. A mother of five, with a two-year-old from her second marriage, she works at a retirement home as a recreation attendant, or as she jokingly calls it, a babysitter for old people. She drinks too much, makes messy choices, and often falls short, but she is not without resilience. She recently earned her GED while pregnant, proof that even now she has not fully given up on herself.
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