Oh and also I just caught the part about the saying she wished she had an abortion. My mother must have said that to me… 100,000 times during my childhood and teen years. When I was 8 she tripped me with a jump rope as a punishment and knocked me out when I hit the floor. I have a 1000 more stories like that. I have spent my whole adult life staying silent…. the last thing my father said to me was, “Why do you always portray us as abusive?” Every friend I had as a child as well as many people who knew our family then would easily answer that as, “because there was a ton of abuse.”