Re: Fave Joni Lines (Magdalene Laundries)

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I suppose it's something in your mind, Kakki, even if there's welfare help available. Something put the idea in her mind that she couldn't cope alone, couldn't be a mother, was a "child with a child, pretending." Maybe a sense of worthlessness, or an inability to self-define. I can only guess. Whatever it was, it must have been heartbreaking.

Sarah


At 5:12 PM -0800 02/02/2003, kakki wrote:

I think Joni might have a love/hate relationship with those old-world nuns
she was exposed to and also, I think, when she was in the hospital long-term
with polio as a child.  Why did she turn to them again when she was
pregnant?  One can argue that they were there for her when she felt she
apparently had nowhere else to go.  Now I'm wondering about social services
in Canada back at that time.  Were there no other options for her and was
welfare assistance not available to her?