Some people preferred to tell lies than tell the truth, than to see themselves. Indeed, such was the case for Linda Griffin,
the diva of KSBC TV, who had felt that if anything happened to her, she would need a successor, someone to pick up where she left off so that what happened to her wouldn't happen to her then future children, and that was her daughter, Sandi.
In the past, Linda had some bad breaks before and after she married Tom, so when she had become getting better jobs, she vowed that if she had a child, she would raise her right so that what happed to her wouldn't happen to her offspring. So when Sandi was born, Linda drilled her on how she was to be, telling her how to be controlling,
the her first priority was to get on top, no matter how tough the odds were. Sandi took to those words of her mother's from the start......then she evolved into the most controlling, scowling, demanding, self centered, shallow, scowling, manipulative, egotistical, narcissitic hyper bitch in all of Lawndale......just what Linda wanted, until, in effect, the creation turned on its creator. In short, there were the many conflicts when it came to the run of the mill mother/daughter clashes, Linda grounding her daughter and Sandi running away. Other times, Linda would goad her daughter to even more of a witch just to one up Helen and Quinn Morgendorffer to prove that the Griffins were a force to be reckoned with. But all it did in the process was make Sandi into the carbon copy that Linda was now, resulting in the end, her daughter running away for good, living in one of the aparment homes normally frequented by the bohemian community. So it was no wonder for the Griffin matriarch to do the unthinkable, which was to disown Sandi.
Now in her fifties, Linda, fearing that it was wise to make peace with her daughter and tell her the truth, before anything happened to her, so she sent a letter to Sandi to meet her at a local coffee shop and hopefully make amends. Right now, in a white blazer, skirt and blouse, Linda waited, until a much older Sandi, in a hippie type summer dress arrived, and upon seeing her old mother, said, "You....wanted to see me?"
"Sandi," said Linda, "we need to talk. There's some thing you should know........."
The moral is: always make up for your mistakes while you can, before time runs out
--a440.
Daria copyright MTV & Viacom