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Just how long should adult children live with their parents before moving on? Lucille Carlini of Brooklyn returned home with her two daughters after a divorce. That was almost twelve years ago. She is now 37 and her daughters 18 and 16. They still live with Carlini's mother Edie, who has welcomed having three generations in the same house. Still, most psychologists feel lengthy homecomings are a mistake. Offspring, struggling to establish separate identities, can wind up with "a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure," says Kristine Kratz, a counselor with the Personal Development Institute in Los Angeles...
...Mort, à Mort, à Mort." Carlini, who has a Marseilles flair for colorful prose, described what happened next...
...decree go through. Nevertheless Red labor leaders summoned workers to the city hall to demonstrate against the fare increase. Two days later, the new council was having its first plenary session at the City Hall. Glowering, stocky Jean Cristofol, the ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol's shirtfront with ink and spat...
...City Hall. There I was warned that Communist shock troops were on their way over. We waited, and soon heard the rumble of the mob outside. Then, one by one, we heard the doors of the City Hall crash open as fiendish howls of 'Death to Carlini' grew nearer...
...They stood motionless, stiff as ramrods," Carlini recalled. "Not one of them moved. I thought my last moment had come, when suddenly a score of Gardes Mobiles showed up. In a most determined manner, they forced a passage through the crowd, freed me and took me back to the City Hall. I was put in an ambulance, but couldn't get to the hospital until an hour later, because the crowd blocked the road and tried to overthrow the ambulance...