Here is a concise summary of the story:
**Title:** A Daughter's Escape from Abuse
**Summary:**
The narrator, Brenna, recounts her life with her controlling and abusive father, who raised her alone after her mother's supposed death. As Brenna entered high school, her father's behavior escalated, restricting her clothing, friendships, and online activity. He eventually confined her to homeschooling, prompting Brenna to discover a shocking truth: her mother was alive, and her father had kidnapped her years ago, changing their identities. With this revelation, Brenna escaped and reunited with her mother, a successful lawyer who had been searching for her. Together, they confronted the father's abuse, and Brenna finally found happiness.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, each with a number and in short sentence form, excluding opinions:
1. **Narrator's name**: The narrator's name is Brenna.
2. **Family composition**: Brenna's mother, Flora, died when Brenna was very little, leaving only Brenna and her father.
3. **Change in relationship**: The relationship between Brenna and her father changed when Brenna started high school.
4. **Incident with clothing**: Brenna's father criticized her for wearing a tank top, leading to Brenna feeling confused and eventually changing clothes.
5. **Father's behavior**: The father began to exhibit controlling behavior, including interrogating Brenna about her friends.
6. **Halloween incident**: Brenna's father became angry when she wanted to spend Halloween with friends instead of him.
7. **Confinement**: The father locked Brenna in her room as punishment.
8. **Access to accounts**: Brenna was forced to give her father all her account passwords and her cell phone.
9. **Blocking contacts**: The father blocked all male contacts on Brenna's social networks, including friends.
10. **Homeschooling**: Brenna was pulled out of school to be homeschooled by her father.
11. **Discovery in attic**: Brenna found her birth certificate and her mother's death certificate in the attic, revealing discrepancies.
12. **Birth certificate revelation**: The birth certificate showed Brenna's name and parents' names were different from what she knew.
13. **Escape**: Brenna escaped from home by climbing out the window and running away.
14. **Research at library**: Brenna researched her mother's name at a library and found she was a successful lawyer in Arizona.
15. **Reunion with mother**: Brenna contacted and reunited with her mother, who had been searching for her.
16. **Reason for disappearance**: Brenna's father had taken her to hide from her mother, who was planning to leave him and gain custody.
17. **Current living situation**: Brenna now lives with her mother.
18. **Discussion of past abuse**: Brenna and her mother discussed the past abuse and how it began with control and isolation.