This is going to sound very strange, but I just met a woman at the grocery store in my town. She just moved to our community. If she isn't the spititng image of Lizzie Borden, then I don't know who is! I felt like she could almost be Lizzie re-incarnated.
We talked for awhile. And the whole time I was talking to her, I kept thinking to myself "This woman is Lizzie Borden through and through. My God, I'm talking to LIZZIE." I know, I know, call me crazy if you want!
Don't ask me how I know, it was just an intense feeling that I got, and my perception of this woman was that she very well
could have been our intriguing Lizzie in another life...
It just seemed to me that her mannerisms and the way she carried herself would have been exactly how Lizzie carried herself.
She seemed a little giddy; nervous laugher in the silent lags of the conversation. A little uncomfortable in her own skin. Almost like SHE didn't know who she was. Like she could be a great many of things...a sweet person, a frightening person, timid & shy, jubilant & exhausting, a murderer, a care-taker, someone who loves animals, someone who hates people, someone who could never swat a fly, but someone who could bash a person's skull in with a hatchet...someone who will never really be known by anyone, but a person who others think they have all figured out...all rolled into one.
I guess you'll never know what you can run into at your local grocery store. Maybe next time I'll come across Cleopatra...
I have always wondered what type of personality was Lizzie-- type A or B? One of those people that was aggersive and got what she wanted, or was she timid and shy. We know she loved animals and was active in church, but was she outgoing and bubble, or demure.Was she active in social events outside of the church? Did she go to concerts and the like. I know after she was aquitted she stepped out, but what about before then?
kash