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Understanding – Julia visits her mother in a mental institution.

Tears run down her mother’s face as she reaches out for her

daughter’s hand.

Julia sees her mother’s powerlessness. She feels her moth-

er’s pain and understands her mother is victimized by her own

illness, entangled in her own grief, and searching for safety and

solace.

Julia is overwhelmed with compassion. She reaches back for

her mother’s hand, and a daffodil appears. She hands it to her

mother, a sign of her forgiveness.

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