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at Emma with a smile, “How about I call the airport and book myself a seat.”
    Emma groaned, “That’s fine,” she saw her mother’s eyes light up, “I hope you have a great time on your trip, why don’t you take daddy with you and he can keep you company.” Her mother began glaring at her. “I have been planning this trip for far too long and I am going to go to Europe on my own. Think of this as a vacation, you and daddy can spend your time together, getting to know each other again or something just let me get to know myself.”
    Emma looked at her bed as the words poured out of her mouth this was not what she had wanted to say to her mother. “What do you mean get to know yourself,” her mother asked her as she sat down.
    Emma looked out of her bedroom window trying to come up with something to say, but knowing that she was going to have to tell the truth and it was going to make her mother angry.
    “I have no idea who I really am,” Emma began, “I do what you tell me to do, I eat what you tell me to eat, I act the way you tell me to act and I say what you tell me to say. I need time by myself so that I can do what I want, say what I want to say I want to act like me and not like you.”
    Emma’s mother stood, she folded the shirt she had in her hand and placed it in Emma’s suitcase. “Well,” she began, “If it bothers you so much that you are like me then fine, I won’t tell you what I think anymore.”
    “That is not what I meant,” Emma said looking at her mother. She knew there was no explaining it to her mother that was just the way she was always taking everything personally. Emma’s mother played the victim well and that was one of the main reasons that she knew she needed to get away.
    When most girls are growing up they look at their mother as someone they want to be like when they get older, but Emma knew that she wanted to be just the opposite of her mother. She wanted to be strong and successful, she knew that one day she would have children of her own and she would not force them to be who she wanted them to be or who she wanted to be while she was growing up. Emma felt bad for her mom because she knew there had to be something lacking in her own life for her to need so much control over Emma’s.
    “Then tell me exactly what you meant Emma,” her mother continued. Emma knew there was no way she was going to drop the subject. She just continued packing her bag without saying a word. Her mother stomped out of the room and Emma knew it was not because of what she had said, but because her mother knew she couldn’t control her any longer.
    Emma smiled to herself, feeling that for the first time in her life she had really stood up to her mom. Normally she would have gone along with whatever her mother said, but Emma had known since the moment she graduated high school that she was going to have to start taking control of her own life or her mother would control her forever.
    Emma did not want to be one of those people who were 40 years old and still lived at home with their parents. She wanted to be successful, happy and she wanted to have her own life, her own home and maybe one day her own family. Her life was about to change and she was happy about.
    That night Emma sat down to what would be her last dinner with her family for an entire year. She had saved enough money while working after school and on weekends to allow her to enjoy Europe for a year and then she planned on coming back and starting college. Her mother cried as Emma ate, her father looked at Emma with anger in his eyes but Emma’s smile remained.
    Their anger would dissipate in time and Emma was going to enjoy her trip no matter what they did. She rolled her eyes as she thought about how the next day would play out. She had to get up early and had planned to take a cab to the airport. She didn’t want to have to rely on her parents for a ride because she knew they would do whatever it took to keep her home even