ROSEMARY SULLIVAN:
She got to the point of having no investment in things.
She believed in the Buddhist principle of being tied down by things, so let's abandon them. And each time, she thought she could find, actually, I think almost a spirituality, a still peaceful place. And she kept leaving them and kept looking for it.
In the morally ambiguous universe she was born into, you know, Stalin's world, she did have her Mary Poppins nanny. She had the most wonderful nanny, whom she loved. When her nanny died, she said, "The person who loved me unconditionally is now gone from my life."
And that nanny's love, intensity created a kind of moral center, I think, for your mom that changed her and made it possible to be the person she was.
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