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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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