Why We Tell Stories Part 4: The Art of Forgetting and Remembering
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Last night, a seemingly typical 5 years later, multiple births story caught my eye. A young mother of quadruplets … now the head of a powerful conglomerate… returns to town with much fanfare to reunite with the father of her children. That immediately piqued my interest because this type of mother figure would normally rather play a game of hide and seek with the children’s father for fear of losing custodial rights. Sooner or later everyone knows that maintaining bloodlines is vital in these stories. Even when she desperately needs something from him she will lie to the bitterest end so as not to lose her maternal rights. Here she feels no need to. In this instance, she’s got a child suffering from leukemia and another pregnancy is the prescribed panacea. Even as she resolutely insists her claims with her genius sons in tow, the man she allegedly married all those years ago disavows any knowledge of a marriage despite her waving around a marriage certificate. And a load of paternity tests. (Paternity tests are staple in the
Why We Tell Stories Part 4: The Art of Forgetting and Remembering
Why We Tell Stories Part 4: The Art of…
Why We Tell Stories Part 4: The Art of Forgetting and Remembering
Last night, a seemingly typical 5 years later, multiple births story caught my eye. A young mother of quadruplets … now the head of a powerful conglomerate… returns to town with much fanfare to reunite with the father of her children. That immediately piqued my interest because this type of mother figure would normally rather play a game of hide and seek with the children’s father for fear of losing custodial rights. Sooner or later everyone knows that maintaining bloodlines is vital in these stories. Even when she desperately needs something from him she will lie to the bitterest end so as not to lose her maternal rights. Here she feels no need to. In this instance, she’s got a child suffering from leukemia and another pregnancy is the prescribed panacea. Even as she resolutely insists her claims with her genius sons in tow, the man she allegedly married all those years ago disavows any knowledge of a marriage despite her waving around a marriage certificate. And a load of paternity tests. (Paternity tests are staple in the