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I am now ‘going in for the kill’.  The entire process of ordering and transcribing my mother’s writings has been to the largest extent so that I can do what I want to do NOW with her words and within the text-context of the story-line I now have for the very disorganized, very disoriented, very disorderly (no matter how many times M waxed the floors and washed the curtains) childhood I had.

I am beginning with the first volume of HOPE FOR A MOUNTAIN and will work my way through to the end of the fourth volume.  I have no ‘plan’.  I have absolutely no idea what will ‘come up’ or ‘be triggered’ along the way — but this — NOW — is MY journey.

What I am aiming at with MILDRED’S MOUNTAIN is money.  Plain and simple.  What else I wanted out of that extensive body of work was the hard DATA — such as it exists — about my mother according to whichever version of her self wrote all those words.  This hard data will be there for anyone who wants to question what I HAVE TO SAY – that work I have accomplished is my ‘research’ – scientific, no, but thorough and comprehensive as I — and fate — could make it.

I am digging for my own gold now in that dark, dark mine of my childhood.

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