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CharP's avatar

That is freaking awesome!

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Theresa Griffin Kennedy's avatar

I was so surprised. I was almost shaking. I never expected that the daughter was even still alive, let alone that I would actually hear from anyone connected to the family. I think a documentary should be made about the truth of what happened. It reads like a Greek tragedy...

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Joshua Marquis's avatar

Congratulations!

What a lovely story...

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Theresa Griffin Kennedy's avatar

Thank you. Yes, it is lovely and so unbelievably sad...

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Pamela Fitzsimmons's avatar

It shows not only the reach of the internet, Theresa, but the reach of your words. Just think if you hadn’t written that essay.

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Theresa Griffin Kennedy's avatar

This poor woman, raised without her mother, and never knew her mother. Like so many people, I spent decades hero-worshiping Daphne Du Maurier, and I will always continue to love her writing and most of her books, but I'll never be able to think of her in the same way again. What she did was so cruel, so heartless. It gives me so much satisfaction to think that this elderly woman might get even a tiny bit of justice for her poor, lost mother, Jan Ricardo.

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