Thanks, Barbara. I may not have gotten it all right, but this is what I remember of that time and the travails poor Syd was going through. Despite my worst worries, she has turned out to be, after some false starts, a mature woman. As you know, she usually accomplishes what she puts her mind to. I hope she can stay focused on school now and turn her lemons into golden lemonade.

It’s called a revisionist history. Often we twist our thoughts of the past to sooth our own distress. You can’t change what actually happened to clear up the cognitive dissonance, but memories and opinions are infinitely malleable.