Emphasis Preaching Journal

Ellen Medar wrote a newspaper article about growing up feeling ostracized because her mother, "a hilarious, smart, gorgeous, tall, blond, beloved attorney named Alice" committed suicide when Ellen was five years old. Ellen never knew how to answer when people inquired about her mother, only to say that she "was no longer with us." Ellen felt ostracized because of the "deep, dark secret" she had to keep.