Word: truda
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...lure worked. After decades of silence, Leitch arranged to meet a reader named Truda, in Liverpool: "Recognition was total, instantaneous. Her expression revealed a moment of fear so acute it was like a pain." Like many other adopted children, her son had his own fears. Were his own flaws environmental, or were they "symbolic perhaps of a greater human carelessness which would forever tie me to my mother's defection...
Leitch candidly describes his dilemma, and sadly recounts the ironies of his ruined marriage: by the time he unearths the most persuasive evidence of his origins, his wife and young son have gone 12,000 miles away to Australia. In 1981, seven years after Truda surfaced, he receives a phone call. The speaker is a woman named Margaret, who informs him that his mother is dead. She is, it turns out, Leitch's elusive sister. The siblings meet, joyously ransack memories and make the most astonishing discovery of all: there is yet a younger sister, Linda Elizabeth. She has been...
...parts have also been filled, though a competition is still being held between Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, Robert L. McKee '37, and Arthur Szathmary '37 for the role of William Bendish. Two Radcliffe students, Romola Robb and Ruth Williams will take the subordinate feminine parts of Marianne and Alf Truda...
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