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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Horrible to read.... [b]especially as someone who experienced something similar from my own mother.[/b]

But yes, I will still read her. I can still enjoy the art even if the artist is problematic/horrible in their personal life. Plan to reread some of my favorite short stories of hers with this information in mind, it's pretty interesting perspective. [/quote]

Unfortunately I did too. I think this is all too common. [/quote]

My mother was in the same room for 98% of the verbal and physical abuse I suffered as a child at the mouth and hands of my father and his mini me bully abuser my elder brother.

I have to believe, having heard him sexually assaulting her when he came home drunk many times, that she also knew what likely was happening when he came home drunk and climbed into my toddler bed to read me The Saggy Baggy Elephant - and to show the toddler me what an elephant’s trunk looks like.

I grew up to be a domestic violence advocate, an advocate for abused kids and later a prosecutor. The sick and sad truth is that a great many women choose their husband or boyfriend or lover over their children, especially over vulnerable daughters. We see it all the time in the criminal justice system, it would make the average person sick but the sad truth is that it’s happening in many average families too.

Madeline Soto’s mother encouraged her adult boyfriend to sleep in the same bed as her pre teen daughter, in a different room from the mother. For years he raped poor Madeline and then on the day she became a teenager, he murdered her.

It’s just one story; there are thousands and thousands more. [/quote]

I forgot to say that a few years back when Munro won the Nobel prize I bought a few of her collections on kindle and they’ve been on my ‘to read’ list - I’m now not going to read them, ever. I don’t care how brilliant her writing has been claimed to be - there are many gifted women writers and too little time for reading these days.

I do intend to send a card to Andrea Skinner, though. I want her to know she’s a hero to the abused girls still living in far too many adult women.. [/quote]

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