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This is the fall line.

This week, we continue the story of Leona LeClair-Kenzie in Carolyn de Ford, a missing mother

and a daughter who was grown up to become an advocate for the missing and murdered. Both

online, through her Facebook group and through her legislative work for missing and murdered

indigenous women and girls. When we left off last time, Carolyn's story had carried us through

her childhood and into the complex relationship she and Leona had in her adolescence. They were

incredibly close and there was so much she admired about her mother, her talent, her

independence, her strength, her eye for artistic design and her humor. But her mother struggles

with addiction had been a strain too and Carolyn sometimes swindered for herself when Leona

was in jail. She blamed her mother for the breakup of Leona's marriage to the stepfather

that Carolyn had adored. By Carolyn's late teenage years, Leona was out of jail and back

living in the little trailer park they'd been in for most of their life, surrounded by

friends and family that Carolyn had grown up with. But Carolyn had begun to strike out on

her own, first living with roommates, then back with her mother, then back with friends.

She was in the process of figuring things out. In six years, her mother would vanish and

Carolyn herself would be a mother. But in the early 1990s, she felt adrift.

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