When Annie talks about her dream of the intruder in her bedroom, Hannah says that she has an idea of what it means, but doesn't go on. Also, Annie talks about not having any memories from before she was 8, and that was when her father had left. I thought this was setting up a backstory that Annie had been an incest victim, and that was one reason for her nervous ailments, and Hannah had a clue about that.
Did anyone else notice that?
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CHILD ABUSE
Yes I noticed. Yes I agree. The main "hints" were childhood amnesia and the dream, but I think there was more material 'between the lines:
when the two girls compared their remembered histories
and when we viewed the differences in their self-esteem and world-views.
and when Annie complains about the men she ends up with.
I'd bet a dollar you are correct.
HEAD SHAKING
BTW, what kind of afflication causes a head shake when a woman is in her teens but resolves (disappears completely?) when she becomes an adult. I thought that headshakes, a la Katherine Hepburn, once had, were forever .....
Any experts out there?
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