"...it's interesting that you, with your education, have so blatantly thrust forth your 'I, I, I' when you should have known there are two sides to everything....She is your mother and you must do what she says, when she says, whatever you might think and despite plans you have made. Have that courtesy as you have that duty...."
more"....I sent you my side of the situation precisely bacause there are always
at least two sides to everything. How can you think I would not know
that? I assumed you knew their side since if they hadn't spoken of it to
you, you would not have written. To provide balance I sent you what I
felt had happened. Some of these things were known only to me and
should change your conception of what occurred.
As for mother, you would have me be her slave. Isn't that the definition
of a slave? To do whatever another bids whenever they wish it without
compensation and irregardless of your own life? I will not be a slave. You
live far away and have for decades. I think you would not enter into the
life which you so casually assign to me with the patronizing patience of a
visionary on the mountaintop and the supreme blind machismo of an
older brother who assumed paterfamilias when there was no family on
which to rest it...."
No further words ensued.