A Brother Lost Ashley Womble Analysis

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In the story "A Brother Lost" by Ashley Womble. She has a twenty years old brother named Jay with a paranoid schizophrenia, a mental illness that damage his mind.
He refuses to take his medications and end up homeless. Because of Jay's schizophrenia, he became obsessed with 9/11 conspiracy theories. He believed that there's a group of people called "the Cahoots" will watch his actions and control his thoughts. Jay also left his house in
West Texas to live on the streets. He's disappearance made an effects on Ashley's personal and professional life, she missed deadlines at work, she stopped doing stuff, like washing clothes and dishes, and she also cried because her brother was unprotected. Ashley started taking pills to help her anxiety

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