"The hardest thing I've ever done. Even harder than learning to fuck like a wolf, and that was damn hard. I should never have tried to raise him. I should have given him up at birth, but I still thought like a human, and I had to try."

"I'm sorry, Mae. I truly am. Did he have children and grandchildren?"

"Thank you, dear. He did. It was hard keeping track of them in the beginning. It's gotten easier with things like FaceBook. As far as they're concerned when I make a friend request, I'm some stranger. They don't know I'm their great, great grandmother. I can follow their lives discretely,...