Amalia's Story, Chapter Fifty-Three
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #6:
“ . . . it never happened;
the victim is deluded;
the victim lies;
the victim fantasizes;
the victim is manipulative;
the victim is manipulated;
the victim brought it upon him- or herself (masochistic);
the victim exaggerates (histrionic),
and,
in any case,
it is time
to forget the past
and move on.”
(Herman, Judith Lewis, MD, Crime and Memory, Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1995)
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=854be4ad718dbfc807f703bf7fb5a8a2d0657b6b

"Wow. What is this?"

"It's like a prayer."

"My mother was not religious."

"Try and stay with me. Do you remember last week?"

"Yes."

"Do you remember what we were talking about?"

"Yes. We were talking about totally normal, random topics of conversation, that just happen to come up all by themselves, for no reason."

"That is correct. Now, what this is, is a handy, laminated pocket-sized card. A list of all the things ...