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Eileen Simpson - Orphans, real and imaginary (1987)

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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

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Eileen Simpson

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Born: 1918
Died: October 21, 2002 (aged 84)
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