LadyFinney’s Reviews > Once Upon a River > Status Update

“I didn’t realize that what I could see was hidden to everyone else. People don’t like it, having their true selves known, and it got me in trouble more than once. I learned to keep what I saw to myself…Too much knowledge is a burden…everyone thinks I’m ashamed, think I’m concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding.”

Siblings: “It was not a sudden end. There was no word to say it would not happen again. Just several holidays in a row when the visit didn’t happen and the dawning knowledge that it was over. The borderline between myself and my brother and sisters had become a solid wall.”