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Marie
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[...] Jane said as she came out of trance: “That was hard for me to get into. [...] One thing that happened was that I was standing an inch or so higher, and I was walking pretty fast—but I was still bent way over, like I was still in my body like that first time this happened. I was real pleased, though.” [...]
As I stated before, Ruburt was not responsible for his mother’s illness, the break-up of her marriage, the deaths of his grandmother and housekeeper (long pause), and had he had brothers or sisters, for example, they would have reacted in their own fashions to Marie’s behavior. [...] There was no distinction made: to be sinful was of course to be a sinner, and in that home there was no time to foster any kind of independence—the children had to follow strict schedules, toe the mark. [...]
He was made to feel often that he was at least strongly responsible for his mother’s illness. It was also true that on other occasions his mother apologized for such statements—but the statements of course were highly charged and emotional, while the apologies were relatively prosaic. [...]
[...] If he looked into a mirror and was caught at it, he was then caught in the sin of pride. When he wet the bed in the fourth grade night after night, the act was characterized as dirty. [...]
[...] The nuns told him that he must say he was happy, whether or not he was. By the time he returned home he was quite rigid and moralistic. [...]
(Long pause at 9:10.) In a large manner, however, Marie’s daughter was always—somewhat, now—on the periphery of Marie’s life, and not at its center. To whatever degree anyone ever was at its center, Del was, even though they had not seen each other for years. [...]
[...] She wasn’t sure whether the momentary fright came from the sleeping or the fear of relaxation, though my feeling was that it was the latter. [...]
(And by 8:22 she was feeling Seth around. Her whole body was still changing. [...]
[...] Marie was also a woman living without a man for many years. She was a strong personality. [...]
[...] She was primarily bitter, and that bitterness lashed out at anyone, with Ruburt the nearest target. (Long pause.) Her last illness, while painful, was not a long lingering one. [...]
