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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (51613)6/20/2002 5:52:44 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I just listened to Adam Bede last weekend on a very long car trip I took
same old same old
About a young woman who kills her baby
such things have always happened, and were probably a lot more common in the past, but forensics were so bad I'm sure most mothers got away with it

It is sad, but certainly understandable
people who are unstable begin to create their own realities. In those realities all sorts of things appear reasonable that do not appear reasonable to people who are not under the same stress. I remember a woman who walked into the surf to drown herself with her two children. She was saved but the children died. She said over and over again that she did not want to leave them "alone". In her strange reality, death with her was "better" for her children than life without her. This is a totally egocentric conceit, but madness is egocentric. When you create your own world for yourself, other people cease to be very real. They are only props in your own world. Forces that hinder or help you. So a baby- what would that be, but something not quite real? Babies aren't even all that real for a while to people who want them, I imagine the experience is very bizarre to someone who obviously did not want to be pregnant.
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