ABSTRACT
Caroline describes a sense of relief, and says that this is different from what she felt when her mother died. That death was experienced as an end of the fear associated with her mother. The author's reluctance to see her more often opened a path to emotional memories of humiliation from Caroline’s past. Caroline continues in her writing to describe the humiliation she felt by actually needing to tell how painful it was for her to feel what she did about the author's response. She then has a vivid emotional memory of this feeling of humiliation in relation to her mom’s having “made fun” of her by refusing to relate to her seriously when she asked for help. The extent of the guilt the author always felt when leaving her now became more understandable in light of her overwhelming loneliness.
