Don’t continue watering a dead flower.” —unknown “A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.” —Octavio Paz painting (detail) by Egon Schiele
Spiteful Baby Helen’s troubles with her narcissist mother started long before she could talk. As an infant she suffered an undetected neonatal stroke. Helen’s mother, Maurine, said she was a colicky baby who was acting out to spite her.
