The Sugar Planter's Daughter
“It broke my fruitless obsession with having a daughter. It humbled me. I was able to stand back and see how totally I had poured myself into that one desire, making it the focal point of my whole life. How wrong that was! It blinded me to so much. To the five boys I already had, and their needs – yes, I had taken care of them, physically, as best I could, but there was something missing in that care, something essential. And it had blinded me to my husband, who had become basically a means to a...n end: a little girl.
My little girl’s death rocked me to the foundations of my being. That Winnie, who thought day and night of that one goal: well, she cracked open. The initial devastation was complete. It destroyed me as nothing else could, leaving me ravaged as a country after a war, blind and deaf to those who cared for me and wanted to rescue me. I refused to see George; I rejected Mama’s ministrations. To tell the truth, at the back of it all I was terrified.MoreLess
My little girl’s death rocked me to the foundations of my being. That Winnie, who thought day and night of that one goal: well, she cracked open. The initial devastation was complete. It destroyed me as nothing else could, leaving me ravaged as a country after a war, blind and deaf to those who cared for me and wanted to rescue me. I refused to see George; I rejected Mama’s ministrations. To tell the truth, at the back of it all I was terrified.MoreLess
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