After much work I present this information in response to this comment a reader made in reference to my mother’s stories:
“Linda, I have read your mother’s childhood stories, particularly the one where you say she has a “break” deep inside her childhood mind. I don’t see it from a readers point of view. Can you explain why you feel this is an important story?”
I know that my own sisters had the same response when they read ,y mother’s stories. Perhaps nobody but me will ever see what I see in them. I don’t know that I can adequately describe what I know about my mother through her childhood writings, but I tried…..
+MY ANALYSIS OF MY MOTHER’S STORIES – PART 1
+MY ANALYSIS OF MY MOTHER’S STORIES – PART 2
+MY ANALYSIS OF MY MOTHER’S STORIES – PART 3
Stop the Storm 
Your analysis is fascinating. I can see how you can “read” into the stories much more than the average person with your educational background and training. You also have the advantage of having known your mother intimately, which allows for greater insight.
As a reader, I do not see what you see in these stories. What does jump out is your empathy toward your mother and her difficult childhood. You are giving her the benefit of the doubt–she abused you because she was terribly abused. ( In other words, she abused you, not because she was evil, but becuase she was sick. ) You posted earlier that you cannot be “mad” at her because of her own abuse and the resulting mental illness. Does this imply forgiveness? Can you understand her condition to the point of forgiving her? I’m not sure I could.
I honestly don’t know what the word forgiveness even means. I hear people use it all of the time, but it might as well be a word constructed in some foreign language to describe some foreign experience that does not seem to lie within any culture I can understand.