Daria Burke

For us as kids, in some way, her presence was so formidable and consistent that I think it would have been quite difficult to actually have the same kind of proximity to my mother's addiction that I had after my grandma died. And so it's when I was around age seven or eight that

My earliest memories of my mother's addiction emerged and where I have great clarity on that shift in her behavior and in the ways in which we related to her and could rely on her.

My earliest memories of my mother's addiction emerged and where I have great clarity on that shift in her behavior and in the ways in which we related to her and could rely on her.

My earliest memories of my mother's addiction emerged and where I have great clarity on that shift in her behavior and in the ways in which we related to her and could rely on her.

It's interesting. I don't know that I would call it... I would have called it a problem because I was so young. I knew pretty early on that my mother was not like other mothers in that we weren't having snacks made for us when we got home from school. She wasn't hovering to make sure that our homework was getting done. Dinner could be a bit of a scavenger hunt at times.

It's interesting. I don't know that I would call it... I would have called it a problem because I was so young. I knew pretty early on that my mother was not like other mothers in that we weren't having snacks made for us when we got home from school. She wasn't hovering to make sure that our homework was getting done. Dinner could be a bit of a scavenger hunt at times.

It's interesting. I don't know that I would call it... I would have called it a problem because I was so young. I knew pretty early on that my mother was not like other mothers in that we weren't having snacks made for us when we got home from school. She wasn't hovering to make sure that our homework was getting done. Dinner could be a bit of a scavenger hunt at times.

And so I even then started to get the sense that something was different. I think my...

And so I even then started to get the sense that something was different. I think my...

And so I even then started to get the sense that something was different. I think my...

Fear around people learning about how things were at home began probably between eight and nine when we wouldn't really want our neighbors to go beyond our front porch and we didn't want them to come into the house because they might find that we didn't have our electricity have been turned off or we didn't have running water. The gas had been turned off.

Fear around people learning about how things were at home began probably between eight and nine when we wouldn't really want our neighbors to go beyond our front porch and we didn't want them to come into the house because they might find that we didn't have our electricity have been turned off or we didn't have running water. The gas had been turned off.

Fear around people learning about how things were at home began probably between eight and nine when we wouldn't really want our neighbors to go beyond our front porch and we didn't want them to come into the house because they might find that we didn't have our electricity have been turned off or we didn't have running water. The gas had been turned off.

We often didn't have a working telephone, so I didn't give my phone number out to people generally, really until high school. But it was really clear to me that there was something that should be hidden from people. And that was, I would say, my first instinct.

We often didn't have a working telephone, so I didn't give my phone number out to people generally, really until high school. But it was really clear to me that there was something that should be hidden from people. And that was, I would say, my first instinct.

We often didn't have a working telephone, so I didn't give my phone number out to people generally, really until high school. But it was really clear to me that there was something that should be hidden from people. And that was, I would say, my first instinct.

Not at that age. I don't know what anyone knew. If they knew anything, they never said anything. And so my earliest, you know, if I think about it now in reflection, I think the first people who probably had instincts were were probably folks in my life when I was in high school.

Not at that age. I don't know what anyone knew. If they knew anything, they never said anything. And so my earliest, you know, if I think about it now in reflection, I think the first people who probably had instincts were were probably folks in my life when I was in high school.

Not at that age. I don't know what anyone knew. If they knew anything, they never said anything. And so my earliest, you know, if I think about it now in reflection, I think the first people who probably had instincts were were probably folks in my life when I was in high school.

And I think I had a different kind of freedom and could therefore be in places with friends and with their parents that maybe created more points of exposure. I think as small children, there wasn't a lot of investigation or interrogation necessarily. And to be fair, one of the boys who lived next door, his mom had four children. Each of the children had a different father.