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In an exclusive excerpt from his memoir The In-Betweens , author Davon Loeb looks back at the moment he understood his mom's fear for his safety

"It’s not that she’s forgotten, but it hurts to tell it," he writes, about his mom sharing a devastating family story

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When my mom tells me this, I’m seventeen and impatient and yessing her for the car keys. She does this often. Holds me here, hostage, in the kitchen, between the dinner table and door, but I’m just trying to hang out with my friends, and my eyes are aimed on those keys, and her eyes are watching me, staring as if afraid to let go. A fear cements her like she knows what I don’t. Mom, an inquiry and an imperative, it’s just a couple friends, no drinking. Sh

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