All of them, those in power, and those who want the power, would pamper us, if we agreed to overlook their crookedness by wilfully restricting our activities.
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by Paulette Cooper [97-1] (1982) [97-2] moreSource: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/a4b4c732953379fb
Part 1: My BackgroundThe following, for my lawyers, attempts to put a number of disparate probably relevant events in chronological sequence. An attempt has been made to focus on the emotions and feelings that the different crises caused. I was born in Auschwitz... around the same time that my parents died there. I was sent to various orphanages in Belgium, along with my older sister Susy. She was adopted by a Belgian Aunt and Uncle when I was 4-½, and I was adopted by the Coopers. I came to America at 6 (I became a U.S. citizen at 8), weighing only 36 pounds. [1] In the summer of 1959, I returned to Belgium and saw my sister again for the first time since childhood. This was extremely upsetting to me, especially since she was living under such horrible conditions. I was also extremely upset after being shown a photograph of my dead parents. In addition, I was also distressed to see that the members of my family who had survived the concentration camps (17 out of 22 had been killed), were living in abject poverty, and some didn't seem to be mentally all there after their concentration camp experiences. On top of it, they all kept trying to convince me to return to live in Belgium. And it also didn't help that my sister told me that I was responsible for my mother's death. It seems that because she was pregnant with me, she was unable to get away and was thus taken by the Germans. This whole visit precipitated some guilts and depressions that ultimately lead me into therapy in 1962 with Dr. Stanley Cath of Belmont, Massachusetts. [2] I went to Brandeis and graduated in 3 years (not counting 6 months out for an appendectomy) with Honors in Psychology. [3] I started off to get a Ph. D in psychology at Columbia University, but hated it there and ultimately got a Masters Degree in Psychology on a part-time basis. Simultaneously, I joined the real world, got a job psychoanalyzing television commercials, followed by two jobs writing them for ad agencies. [Addendum 1997: While in advertising I sold my first three articles — to Cosmopolitan, TV Guide, and The Washington Post — and left advertising to become a full-time freelance writer in 1968.] Footnotes
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