She had been told that it was normal to look forward to your 18th birthday, that every teenager couldn't wait for it. Her therapists should be happy that they managed to give her that slice of normality they worked for these years, instead they dreaded the moment she came of age. Just because according to some rules they would have to let her out of the hospital they had held her in.
All these years they tried and when they finally have the reaction they want they aren't happy?
Missy Bender was looking forward to this day. She was hungry.