Timeline

Scott and I visited Mica in Portland at the end of that summer 2018, for a quick lunch to see him and Michelle and Buffy. We ate  at a picnic table outside a waffle restaurant near Division. I watched them walking down the sidewalk as they approached, Mica wearing the blue and green plaid shirt that I would again see him wear, as he ran from his house in February 2020, later on instagram, and still later, again on a social media site in 2021. Buffy, as usual, was eagerly trying to be friends with anyone passing by. 

At the end of August, I received texts from Mica asking about transferring his stock accounts to him, a request for extra money to pay for school books during his last year at Reed, and for repairs to his car, a mini cooper he had had for a couple of years. He and Michelle had driven the car from Atlanta in the summer of 2016, stopping to visit Mount Rushmore on the way.

In Atlanta a week later, I phoned Mica, as we had discussed, to arrange a time that he could be on the phone to transfer his stocks when I was at the broker's office. I received a text from Mica that said he did not think he could talk because he had left to go camping and would have no reception. I thought this was odd since he had initiated the request to talk. 

Is it possible that Mica was restrained from calling, or chose not to call, hoping that I would not sign anything?

A week after I transferred Mica’s accounts, we arrived home after dinner, and saw a mini cooper like Mica’s parked in the street out front. I thought Mica had come for a visit, but he was not inside, so I said it must be a car just like his, and I sent a text to him asking if he had a key to our house. The next morning we found a typed letter in our mailbox. This letter said that we had given Mica PTSD and he could not say the name “MOM”.  He said he wanted no contact with us and he knew this would hurt us. The letter also demanded that I send all his stock certificates to him, and threatened that he would take a restraining order out against us if we contacted him, or anyone about him. He said he would be keeping his new i phone 7 that was on my account. The letter also said that he loved us and appreciated all the opportunities we had given him. He said this separation would not be forever. 

I have not talked to Mica since having lunch with him in August 2018.