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Article: Daughter: Dark snapshot not the whole picture.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- May 11, 2001
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A year or so ago, I came across my teenage diary in an old box of keepsakes. Cracking open the 25-year-old lime green cover, I discovered a long-forgotten full-page diatribe on all the ways my mother was failing me. As the oldest and only daughter, I felt overburdened and under appreciated, my adolescent needs overlooked by a mother whose time and emotional energy were zapped daily by her unruly younger sons.
Yet in spite of how I felt at 15, as an adult I enjoy a close relationship with my mother. We're alike in some ways, but we more often approach our lives from opposite directions. Where she meanders introspectively, I cut to the chase; where I need certain ...
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