{"text":"Here was what I wanted to happen when I walked through the door after my first real date and my first ever kiss. I wanted my mom to say, “Dear God, Meg, you’re glowing. Sit and tell me about this boy. He let you borrow his jacket? That’s so adorable.” Instead, I came off the high of that day by writing a letter to my dead brother and doing yoga between my twin beds, trying to forget my absent mother.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["family","glass-girl","laura-anderson-kurk","love","meg-kavanagh","mother-daughter-relationship","separation","teen-fiction","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":402799,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"}