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Part 9: “If You Promise You Won’t Tell: A Memoir”

8 Comments / December 19, 2021

Chapter 4. Do-Bees and Don’t-Bees [T]oxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he’s not doing enough to gain parental affection.[…]This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent… — Susan Forward Mem carried the responsibilities of two parents, and consequently she relied on us children to help […]

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Part 8: “If You Promise You Won’t Tell: A Memoir”

4 Comments / December 12, 2021

Continued from Chapter 3: Mem Buys a Baby and a House Somehow my parents managed to live in a four-room house with all five of us children until the summer Simon was born. One night at the supper table, Mem brought up the idea of buying an old house from up the road and adding it onto our own. Datt

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Part 7: “If You Promise You Won’t Tell: A Memoir”

6 Comments / December 5, 2021

Continued from Chapter 3: Mem Buys and Baby and a House Susan Sakura from next door spent a lot of time that summer “teaching school” in the barn across the yard from our house. My siblings and I were her students. She was ten years old, and I was five. There at the picnic table, with my bare feet dangling

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Part 5 “If You Promise You Won’t Tell: A Memoir”

8 Comments / November 21, 2021

Continued from Chapter Two: In the Shadows Out of nowhere, Datt got a job. He helped with chores morning and night on the Hale farm up the road by hauling pails of milk from the barn to the milkhouse. He came home tired, which meant that Mem and Joey had to do our own farm chores. When Datt returned home

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Part 4: “If You Promise You Won’t Tell: A Memoir”

11 Comments / November 14, 2021

Chapter 2: In the Shadows There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow… — George Eliot Interspersed with the “normal” memories of my young childhood are dark memories in which I experienced fear and sometimes terror. The first betrayal of the bond Mem created with me as a small

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Part 3, If You Promise You Won’t Tell: A Memoir

9 Comments / November 7, 2021

Saloma Miller Furlong · Part 3, If You Promise You Won’t Tell: A Memoir Chapter 1: Early Remembrances, continued There are several incidents that happened when I was very young in which Mem’s telling of them fuses with my own memories. One night when I was perhaps three years old, I sat on the woodbox next to the stove in

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