Oh if only he knew... Of all the ways that she'd thought about her situation, she'd never really thought about it as a family business... but maybe it was? And she was doing it more in spite of her than becuase of her... It was something that Dr. Money kept coming back to. That and the fact that she didn't have to be 'okay' all the time.
"Something like that," she finally said with a sigh. "Stagemother. Always want what they think is best for you and by the end of it you don't really know where they end and you begin." Cissie shrugged. "Sort of gotten a bit of perspective on that recently. It's how I got into Hawthorne." It wasn't a bad place. She just... didn't really have anyone there she could talk to. (Ms. Frost was pretty cool about it tho... no pun intended.) "But you know what they say, every family has their issues. Some are just more prominent than others?" Tommy was a teenager too, he'd understand, right?