Her
daughters seem most perplexed by Julie’s absolute denial. Sometimes, Sarah
explains, people tell themselves a story so emphatically for so long that it becomes
truth to them. Julie is ninety years old. The story is older than a half
century. Sarah believes that her mother believes that she is speaking the truth—that this discovered “fact” is impossible and
not a fact at all.
My 94-year-old mother-in-law is convinced of things we know are untrue.
ReplyDeleteMy dad lived to 90, all of his faculties intact except he was convinced teenagers were having sex in his garage.
ReplyDeleteIt was probably Roy Moore.
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