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As for overbearing parents, I had two and not necessarily a mother and father. I had a mother and a grandmother. The old crone was a control freak to begin with.

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Hi September,

The Nobel prizewinning writer, Alber Camus, was brought up in poverty by his mother and grandmother.

His grandmother (who he called 'the other' in his diaries) used to beat him as a child. As he grew up, he described how one day he was being beaten as usual with a stick, and he took hold of her arm and said 'No more'. He was finally big enough to do it. She never beat him again.

Camus was a great writer, and a sensitive thinker, but there was never any forgiveness in his writing for 'the other'. That's where beating your grandchild gets you. That is how she has been remembered.

Good thoughts, M