I remember a long time ago when a fellow teacher of my mother's said that my mother had had to endure so much! That was a stunning statement to me, that the other teacher sympathized with the witch without even thinking about how I felt about it or how we children had been treated!

Now I am able to see how "bent" my mother must have been to behave the way she did. But it's taken a long time for me to come to this point -- a long time and a lot of absorbing of care for me. I would not have done it if I had not gotten that.