The Only Daughter.

Ruth Ann Scanzillo
5 min readJan 17, 2024
Lydia Elisabeth “Betty” Sweet …2/11/19–8/4/95

Mum hated herself.

She loathed her lack of faith.

So, Mum behaved — with absolute obedience. She did everything as she’d been taught to do it: got married; birthed, fed, and dressed children; kept the house spotlessly clean; served others, for a pittance. Ironic, really, born with a dazzling smile.

The ladies whose bodies didn’t fit into clothes off the rack relied on her to make…

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Ruth Ann Scanzillo

Ruth Ann Scanzillo is a 25 year Baby Boomer veteran of public arts education w/34 years as symphonic cellist and chamber pianist; now, writing seems important.