A daughter breaks the cycle, becoming 'a mother who lived'
(NEWSER) - Linda Gray Sexton’s mom—Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton—killed herself when her daughter was 21, and Sexton promised she’d never do the same. But that was before her life fell apart just before she turned 45, the age her mother was when she died. In her book Half in Love, excerpted on Salon , Sexton recalls how she found herself drawn into a “vortex of depression, desperate for relief” and crying for no reason, just like her mother once had. “For the first time in my life,” she writes, “I envied my mother the solution she had found to quell the pain of her depression.” More»
