sense of family balance which surrounds but does not quite include the early memories of herself and Emily in the grips of survival needs. We construct an image of the stressful growth of the daughter from infancy through a troubled, lonely childhood, and an unsettled adolescence and finally into the present nineteen-year-old, who "needs help," but who has also found a strong inner!
             resource in her talent, in her own sense of self.
             The story is very fundamentally structured through the mother's present selfhood. It is her reality with which we are centrally concerned, her perception of the process of individuation to which the story gives us access. Her concerns with sorting through Emily's past are her concerns with defining the patterns of her own motherhood and of the limitations on her capacity to care for and support the growth of another human being. As she rethinks the past, she frames her perceptions through such interjections as "I did not know then what I know
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