My mother had been a young nurse in World War I in France. She had seen a lot of horrors and came away shaken. When I was born she was divorced. She brought me up totally by herself. Her energy was phenomenal. It must have been terribly hard. Divorce was still a disgrace in those days. A lot of friends and family distanced themselves from her. My heart went out to her even when I was barely conscious of it. She wasn't a possessive or corrective mother. She let me be free. She let me form my own personality.Christopher Plummer; Canadian actor and Academy Award winner; Readers Digest Canada; 2002
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