An oblique remark in her book that “kids often find it impossible to talk to their parents openly” is Pamela’s only reference to not having been heard as a child. There is no depiction of the frustration a child feels when the significant adults do not know how to listen. In general, she insists that she had no “personal demons to exorcise,” a remark exemplifying the denial of anxiety, anger and negative emotion that the studies on cancer patients have consistently reported.
