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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ahhh next week's preview! Anyone think something is going on with Eden and the guard?[/quote]

I think we need Eden's backstory to figure her out.  I assume she is the daughter of a handmaid who was separated from her family around age 8, and raised by the ruling class?  If she was from an eco-family, I don't know that she would be so indoctrinated.   [/quote]

That makes me think of the Stalinist orphanages for kids whose parents were killed by Stalin in the purges.  They were raised to adore Stalin and the regime and totally indoctrinated.  Some  of them realized how badly they’ve been used when they were older, but it’s hard for a kid.  There’s a bit in the book where June sees girls getting married and thinks that they are old enough that they probably still remember wearing jeans and riding their bikes to their friends’ houses, but that in a few years that won’t be true anymore.  You would think Eden would still have memories from before Giles’s.  But I guess it’s also possible that she came from an unhappy or abusive home and her pre-Gilead memories are not good either.[/quote]

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