Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

by John Bloom

She was a person excessively concerned about what other people thought of her—a common trait in people suffering from dissociative reaction—so she tried to keep up a public front at all times. She wanted others to consider her warm and loving and concerned for animals and children, a person who didn’t have a violent or vindictive bone in her body. No one is that pure, so she had suppressed a great deal of anger over the years in order to satisfy her ideal self-image.