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Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

Eileen Simpson

Eileen Simpson

Eileen Simpson

Born: 1918

Died: October 21, 2002 (aged 84)

Bio: For the British artist, see Eileen Simpson

Known for:

Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir (1982)
Orphans, real and imaginary (1987)
The maze (1975)

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