It's really about her fears and terrors and anxieties. But whatI didn't understand then,...

It's really about her fears and terrors and anxieties. But what
I didn't understand then, the thing I learned
many, many years later, I was living out in California. I was talking to my mother
on the phone. This was toward
the end of her life. We were talking about
my grandfather. She said, "It's like
Aunt Louise, he didn't mean to hurt her." I said, "What do you mean?" She said, "Well, yes,
he kicked her and he didn't mean to." I said, "What do you mean
he kicked her?" She said, "Well, yes,
he kicked her in the vagina." [bells tolling] I said, "What?" She said, "Yeah,
he kicked her in the vagina." I said, "What was going on?" "Oh, I don't know. She was getting married
the next day. And, um, he was just upset." [chuckles softly] I just thought, this is... things started
to make sense to me