Maria was waif-like with mousy brown hair. I felt protective and maternal towards her. She had been living alone with her four-year-old daughter since separaring from her husband. She had a brother and an elder sister. She and her sister had both been abused by their father throughout their childnood.....



A ten-page letter to Dad incriminating him fully in his past was the outcome of our encounter. She was triumphant despite the lack of a reply. A week later I was invited to administer an injection for a migrainous headache at the dead of night....she was languishing on a downsatirs settee skimpily clad....Nothing had changed much for us both like all b-atmoi subjects she was permanently available for the embrace of any locally available all-embracing (M)Other