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" When I first read Becky&amp;#039;s e-mail, I almost keeled over and passed out. She talked about leaving this life and going into the light, and I could swear she was planning some sort of suicide with her kids.  It wasn&amp;#039;t until I showed the letter to Mom that I found out she wasn&amp;#039;t talking about death at all, thank God \u2014 but something else entirely. Something not as permanent but equally upsetting.  We were sitting in Mom&amp;#039;s living room, where she was clearly shaken by the news of Becky&amp;#039;s disappearance. She held her chest and began hyperventilating.  &amp;quot;Get me my glasses. My glasses!&amp;quot;  I wasn&amp;#039;t aware my mom could read, but apparently when she wore a certain pair of thick-framed glasses and held documents up to her nose she could make stuff out. I&amp;#039;d read the e-mail to her aloud, but now she wanted to see it for herself.  &amp;quot;Stupid, stupid, girl!&amp;quot; she shouted. She tore the printout up and collapsed on the couch. &amp;quot;I thought she was done with The Light.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;What is The Light?&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;I thought Charlie was still in prison. He must have gotten out recently. I can&amp;#039;t read the papers anymore with these damn eyes. I am so out of touch.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Mom, you need to tell me what the hell you&amp;#039;re talking about. I&amp;#039;m going crazy here.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Charlie&amp;#039;s her old guru, and The Light is the cult he has in Arizona. I thought they&amp;#039;d been disbanded. I thought Becky was entirely deprogrammed. Who is this guy Chai, and what is this money she&amp;#039;s talking about?&amp;quot;  I realized then that Becky hadn&amp;#039;t told her a thing. She must have thought Mom wouldn&amp;#039;t approve \u2014 and she was probably right. Not too many moms, especially conservative moms, would support a lesbian affair with a 23-year-old hotel heiress. But that wasn&amp;#039;t important right now. What was important was finding out where Becky was and how to get her back.  &amp;quot;It doesn&amp;#039;t make sense,&amp;quot; Mom was saying. &amp;quot;Everything was going so well in her life. She loved her job. Her kids were excelling. Why would she need this man to lean on? I sort of understood it when Mark left her for another guy, but this makes no sense. Zach, we need to do something. They&amp;#039;re gonna brainwash her again.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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