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...world who did this. I'm making myself a better person. But I'll be in therapy a long time." His stepdaughter has lived consecutively with her grandmother, her natural father, in a shelter for girls from broken homes and now, at almost 18, with an aunt. No one can predict whether she will ever get over her childhood trauma...
...trifling and ill motivated by comparison with the traumas of her benumbed patient. Dawn was born to a catatonic, who committed suicide when her child was an infant, and a male homosexual, who died in a boating accident a year later. She has been raised by a leathery lesbian aunt and her feminine girlfriend, whom the child called Daddy and Mommy. (To aggravate matters, Dawn switched those names around as a schoolgirl after learning that mommies stayed home like her aunt and daddies worked like the girlfriend.) Though any first-year psych major could offer a working hypothesis of what...
...drink of water at a well, she left her young daughter with some fellow refugees. When she returned, the little girl was gone. That same year Kim Sung Soo, 8, was separated from his mother in the wartime chaos around Chonan, 50 miles south of the capital. An aunt left him in an orphanage while she searched for his mother. She did not find her. Huh Hyun Chul, 9, lost his four-year-old sister when she was left behind at a barbershop during the family's flight from the war. These are but a few among millions...
...Arizona, a stuffy concierge insists that Chase's credit cards are lost and refuses to cash a check because he has no plastic to back it up. Our hero then cleans out the hotel cash register. Soon after, the family discovers that crotchety old Aunt (Imogene Coca) has passed away in the car. In a Pythonesque sick joke, the family straps the body to the roof and deposits it at the widower's doorstep in Phoenix in the midst of a rainstorm...
...book also talks about the year Aunt Grace got cancer and Aunt Elinor mobilized everyone to read Christian Science literature. It retells stories long since drained of humor or sadness but not of their power as talismans, like stones found in childhood that still cause a tingle when discovered in a drawer and held in the hand...