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I just finishing transcribing another version Mother wrote about the decision they made to move to leave Los Angeles and move to Alaska.  I like this one better.  There is no indication of when it was written, but I think it was written before the one I posted last night.

It leaves me thinking that no matter how genuine and authentic their ‘dream’ was, my mother’s undiagnosed and untreated severe mental illness did actually destroy any chance our family had to ACTUALLY ‘live happily ever after’, which is something I believe my parents both hoped for when they made this HUGE move.  That tragedy is real, even if I cannot find even a glimmer of it in this piece she wrote:

*Probably written October 1958 about leaving Los Angeles

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