Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir by Laura M. Flynn

Author:Laura M. Flynn [Flynn, Laura M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Social Science, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Mentally Ill Parents, Children's Studies, Siblings, Mental Illness, California, Children of Parents With Mental Disabilities, San Francisco, Large Type Books, Psychology
ISBN: 1582434611
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2009-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

She did get out of the house more that summer. Refugees from Vietnam were arriving by the planeload at the military base in the Presidio—a stone’s throw from our house. My mother followed the war intently to its bitter end. We’d all watched TV together as those last helicopters took off from the roof of the embassy in Saigon earlier in the spring. My mother was so affected by those images that she offered herself up as a volunteer at Letterman Hospital, which was a reception center for arriving Vietnamese orphans. Given how erratic she was at home, it is hard to imagine how she pulled this off, but she did, coming home with stories of holding Vietnamese babies in her arms.

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