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additionally other social outcasts. The Baby
commands to do chores and marathon prayer
Boomer generation did experience the trauma
sessions that showed a very emotional side
as well. The trauma was real and therefore
that was absent in her everyday interactions
recognizable as it rears its ugly head once
with me and my other siblings. She anointed
again.
our heads with blessed oil and prayed over
The Training was Unnoticed
each one of us separately. She cried and
spoke in tongues incessantly. The safety and
My mother and I had an interesting
care of her children were not in question here.
relationship.
It9s just that the responsibility of life and
I found similarities in my mom9s early life
educational instruction were given to those
experiences that she shared with me and
people she felt were better equipped to
others during the last ten years of her life.
provide those types of guidance and learning.
These shared experiences helped me to also
Growing up I felt a sort of emotional
understand my relationship better, to and with
detachment from my mother because of this,
her. While growing up she offered no
but I was also aware of her sense of family
guidance nor comfort nor solutions to
structure and value and the commitment she
problems. What she did do was take me and
made to us to be in her care. Even though
my siblings to church.
timely and relevant dialogue was non-existent
in our early relationship she still left an
My early childhood through adolescent
indelible impression on my life. As a result of
upbringing and ensuing adult relationship was
this, I did not maintain any lasting meaningful
mostly non-verbal dialogue consisting of
relationships because I was ill-equipped to do
