I knew it would be emotionally difficult but I just didn't have a choice. It was more

emotionally, it had become more emotionally difficult to not do it.

Sarah Perry quoted Anayas Nin and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a

bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The quote speaks to the repression that for years kept the story of Sarah's mother from reaching the page.

Now, Sarah is the author of After the Eclipse, a memoir that documents her early life

in Bridgeton, Maine with her beautiful red-haired mother, Crystal Perry, as well as the details and aftermath of her murder in 1994.

From her own memories and through conversations with her mother's family, friends, and acquaintances, as well as evidence and

case files, Sarah Perry got to know her mother's life through a new lens and see clearly the issues working against the search for answers in Crystal Perry's case.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the story of Crystal Perry, told by her daughter, Sarah Perry, on of her childhood in Bridged in Maine, the daughter of a single mother, Crystal Perry.

They were close, like best friends.

Sarah's book narrates much of that life together through the eyes of a daughter who

adored her mother. We had such a good relationship when I was little and she died kind of as I was starting to become a

preteen and push her away a little and tried it individuate so a real risk of this book was having this perspective on her that was too

rosy-eyed to like perfect, perfect mom. Oh, she's so beautiful she's so this she so that but you know the

beautiful thing and several other things that I had held dear about her were I have evidence now from other people.

Like, it's an indisputable fact.

So something that I was looking for was,

I guess, even an idea of was is my idea of who she was accurate or or was it

was it so colored by me being a child,

even though I was a precocious child

and we were close and etc.

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