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Blanche Duchesne - She is a former grocer from a rural community and, besides the author, had another daughter who died in childhood. Her husband is also dead.

Annie Ernaux - She suffers as she watches her mother succumb to Alzheimer's Disease and her feelings for her mother range from love and tenderness to hatred and even the desire to be cruel.

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