Rantings and ravings

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Dr Wurst, Dr Sanisburg and Professor Angler,

This is Marian Pike. I would like to thank you profusely for your effort in helping my sister.

Sadly, your efforts proved futile, as she passed away on the 12th of June, several weeks ago.

Although your feedback was helpful at first, it backfired quickly.

For the first few weeks of treatment, we seemed to make progress. She would accept the pills and the physiatrist. She even began to paint again.

But as soon as we attempted to remove the voice recordings, she snapped.

I understand that you thought it was the recordings that were making her worse. That she was just replaying our mothers death over and over again, with the same message, where she yelled at Rosemund and told her to get off the phone.

In a way, she was relieving the accident. I believe that she blamed herself. She was the one that called her, but mother was the one who picked up, and of course the car that was coming...

Although I don't wish to speak badly of the dead, I most confess that it was both their faults.

But after mother died, Rosemund didn't keep the voice recording to remind herself of her mistake; I believe she kept it to remain close to mother.

Especially after our father died, in the same crash of course, but she seemed to only fixate on our mother's death and not his, perhaps because she could hear when the car hit, and the tragedy that ensured straight from our mother's own mouth.

I'll stop wasting your time now, doctors. I'm extending an invitation to her funeral. It's to be held in the Saint Walters Cemetery, at the East side of the grounds. The ceremony begins at 3:30pm, and ends at 5:00pm on the 1st of July. If you would like to attend, please contact me via phone.

Yours sincerely,
Marian Pike