Sophie's mother works as a care taker/maid for an invalid old woman. She stays with her and cares for her and sleeps on the floor next to her every night. Sophie cares for herself and sleeps on a cot in a separate room. One night Sophie feels extremely homesick and wants nothing but to be near someone so she asks for her mother to come and spend the night with her. When they begin to talk Martine, Sophie's mother looks into her eyes and asks if she was the mother Sophie had hoped she'd be. Sophie had always hoped that her mother would be like Erzulie, the vaudou loa and Virgin Mother, "the healer of all women and the desire of all men." However Sophie tells her that couldn't have asked for better.
When I read of Erzulie, the Virgin Mother I became curious as to who that was and what the story behind that person/thing was that had relevance to the way Sophie had perceived her mother to be.
This is what I learnt:
http://www.erzulies.com/site/articles/view/29
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