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WTH Part Two: Chapter 14: August 2, 1984 4/47 (9%) Carla crying Marie murderer nurses
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Starting Over
– Chapter 14: Nirvana, Right is Might, Onward Christian Soldiers, and the Human Body as a Planet Worth Saving
– August 2, 1984 3:21 P.M. Thursday

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Let Ruburt remind himself that his birth was not responsible for his mother’s incapacity. He did not rob her of her own life by being born.

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He has no reason (long pause) to feel guilty, or to punish himself for his mother’s situation. He did not murder her in any way by his birth. He is, therefore, no murderer or destroyer, or contemptible. He is not his mother’s murderer, then, in any fashion, nor responsible for the breakup of his parents’ marriage.

[... 5 paragraphs ...]

(“Well,” I said several times, wherever she is now, I sure hope your mother understands what she did to you. I groped for words to express my anger, for watching my wife cry certainly aroused strong feelings within me. I felt like directing some very nasty barbs at Marie — especially when I remembered those old photos of Jane that I’d looked at a couple of days ago. How could a three-year-old child, standing in the snow on Middle Avenue in Saratoga Springs, be responsible for hurting anything — or anybody?

[... 9 paragraphs ...]

There is no reason either, to blame his mother, or to hold any grudge against her, for in no way did Marie understand the issues.

[... 9 paragraphs ...]

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