[Arwen]

Originally Posted by Lynn

Arwen,

I was thinking about your attempt to see your mother as someone beyond her roles and I wondered if she was able to see herself as someone beyond her roles.

I actually KNOW my mother saw herself as beyond her roles. She was an amazing woman. However, this ability also render her the gift of being selfish. That did not translate well for my sister or myself at times because we thought she belonged to us. She had to continually disabuse us of that notion.