She lost her mother for about eighteen months.

Charlene Gaddis stayed with Cade through the plea and told her daughter, in the second week, that she had destroyed the family.

They speak now, carefully, about twice a month, and it took Charlene leaving Cade in the second year and two years of her own therapy to get there.

She lost her school in her junior year, her town, her church, her softball team, and every single one of her cousins except one.

She was called a traitor to her face at a funeral by a great-aunt.