Monday, January 29, 2018

29/365/Serial

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.

3 comments:

  1. My 94-year-old mother-in-law is convinced of things we know are untrue.

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  2. My dad lived to 90, all of his faculties intact except he was convinced teenagers were having sex in his garage.

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