Despair, Stronger Than Love

Bradley E. Clift

The Hartford Courant

Child's Play--Children playing imitating adults. Damris's four year old daughter, Damris Jr. , plays junkie with a kitchen match. Emil and all of Edward and Damaris's children are in the custody of her mother. The grandmother does not allow drug use around her apartment. The girl picked up the game earlier and had every detail of the drug use down to the hiding of the works and the cleaning of the needles. She had learned when she still lived with her parents earlier in 1991.

Bradley E. Clift, "Despair, Stronger Than Love," in POYi Archive, Item #19646, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/19646 (accessed April 21, 2025).