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- Título
- Building Blocks
- Autor
- Akullian, Judith
- Editorial
- Authorhouse
- Año de publicación
- 2014
- Estado
- New
- Encuadernación
- PAP
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1491817712
- ISBN 13
- 9781491817711
- Peso del artículo
- 248 gramos
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Building Blocks
By Judith AkullianAuthorHouse LLC
All rights reserved.
Contents
Introduction, ix,
Joan, 1,
Thomas, 10,
Louise, 23,
Karen, 35,
Nicholas, 48,
Stefan, 62,
Teresa, 76,
Cindy, 91,
CHAPTER 1
JOAN
* * *
Joan has lived in apartment 1A practically her whole life. Her parents moved there when she was three, right before her brother was born. With the expectation of a third child, Joan's parents realized that they needed larger living quarters to house their growing family. So, forty five years ago Joan, her older sister Susan, and her parents moved into the building. The apartment, a large three bedroom, faced the street which permitted it to be flooded with sunlight during the afternoon hours; an occurrence that was very pleasing to Joan. Joan's sister was eight years her senior, and although Susan was kind to Joan, the difference in their ages was too remarkable for them to be friends. Joan though, was very attached to her mother.
When her mother became pregnant with her brother, Joan and her mother spoke about how it would be when Joan became a big sister. To Joan a little brother or sister would be like having a doll, maybe like the one she played with during the day and slept with at night. She did not think it would change her relationship with her mother; she would be her mother's little girl just like before. Reality though, can often shock and traumatize our senses. Joan was not prepared for the loss of her mother's attention. She did not understand the enormous amount of energy and time her mother needed to devote to her infant's constant demands. To state that Joan was jealous is to underemphasize the discomfort and even bewilderment Joan experienced when her brother Fred was brought home. Susan to her credit, tried to fill the empty space her mother left. She offered to play with Joan and spend time taking her to the neighborhood park. But Joan was inconsolable and Susan soon gave up. To complicate things further, Joan's father was delighted that he now had a son, an heir to carry on his name; a very important and meaningful event in this Jewish household. Joan became aware that her brother, who occupied so much of her beloved mother's attention, was also, it seemed, a preferred child.
Like most children, Joan learned to live with her interloper of a brother. She tried to like him in order to please her mother who enlisted her assistance by telling her she was mommy's helper. Joan went along with it; it allowed her to spend time with her mother. Happy she was not. And then the event that was to change her life occurred.
It happened one week day afternoon when Joan, her mother and her brother Fred were in the kitchen. Her mother was preparing to feed Fred who was ten months old. He was sitting in his high chair, one of those old fashioned tall wooden seats with a tray attached where food was placed. Joan's mother had her back to her children. Joan was teasing her brother by dangling a toy rattle in front of him. He was attempting to grab for it. He leaned forward with a thrust and over went the high chair, Fred and all. Fred was thrown from the high chair and hit his head on the tiled kitchen floor. Joan's mother, startled by the crashed, turned to find her baby boy lying unconscious at her feet. Hysterical, she screamed at Joan, `what did you do?' Joan, terrified said she was playing with Fred. Her mother screamed over and over, "what did you do, what did you do?" Panicked, Joan's mother grabbed both children, and sped to the pediatrician's office which was only a couple of blocks away. Upon examining Fred, the doctor called an ambulance and Fred, her mother and Joan were sped to the local hospital. A massive hemorrhage was discovered in Fred's brain requiring him to be put on a respirator to aid in his breathing. Joan's father and sister soon joined Joan and her mother at the hospital. For several days the family waited for news that Fred would be able to be brought home, that he would be found healthy and that the family would be able to resume their life. Such news never arrived. Fred never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead two weeks later.
Grief-stricken, the family tried to resume their lives. Joan's father, heartbroken at the loss of his son, needed someone to blame. Joan's mother became the target of his rage. Why was she not watching the children? How could she have let such a thing happen? Unable to come to terms with his loss, unable to forgive his wife, Joan's father withdrew from the family. He no longer played with his children or discussed things with Joan's mother. He would go to work and come home, watch TV and go to bed, barely speaking to anyone. Depressed and angry he would bark out orders to his daughters and wife. Joan's mother, grieving herself, felt abandoned by her husband and secretly felt guilty that she had not prevented the tragic loss. Although she realized that Joan was just a child herself and could not rationally be held responsible for what had occurred, she blamed the situation on her, accusing her of the ensuing loss of affection and resulting family dysfunction.
How was a four year old child to understand the dramatic change in her parents' attitude and behavior toward her? How could she possibly comprehend what had happened to her brother? Needless to say though, she was now convinced that she was bad and what was occurring was her fault. She not only lost her parents love, but her own valued sense of self. Her sister Susan was becoming a teenager with all the challenges implied in that transition. She turned to her peers for solace, emotional support and friendship. Slowly she slipped away from the family. At the age of eighteen she left for college and never returned home.
Joan funneled her energies into her schoolwork. She was an A student bringing home test papers that any parent would be proud to receive. She devoted herself to being a good daughter; to regaining her mother's affection. She became very sensitive to her mother's emotional and physical needs, always aware of the shifts that would occur on a regular basis. She stood clear of her father whose rage frightened her. She had a few girlfriends but her social life took a back seat to her main interest, her mother.
After graduating from high school Joan, who never considered going away to college (even though her grades were high enough to have gotten her into numerous schools), got an office job working as a Girl Friday in a small manufacturing company. Joan was one of three people who occupied the small downtown office. Each day Joan left the apartment at 8 A.M., took public transportation to the city's business district arriving at her office at 9A.M. Each day at noon she bought her lunch at the deli situated on the ground floor of the office building. She ate lunch at her desk so she could continue working. The same diligent habits that resulted in her achievements in school were applied to her work situation and she soon came to be an invaluable asset to her employer. The praise and admiration so lacking at home, Joan was able to attain from her boss. It was no wonder that her job became her whole life.
Twenty two years were spent working at the manufacturing company. Joan left only after the company went under financially and was forced to close its doors. During fifteen of those years Joan carried on an affair with one of the firm's salesmen, a married man named Steve. Steve never promised to leave his wife and children for Joan, nor did Joan ask or want him to do so. Joan was as much married to her mother as Steve was to his wife. She could not think of leaving her anymore than Steve could think of divorcing his spouse. Twice a week Joan and Steve would have dinner together at a nearby restaurant and then go to a small hotel, also nearby where they would have their affair. Joan enjoyed these evenings, and would make an effort to dress herself up wanting to be attractive to Steve. Joan's mother, after several months of witnessing Joan's changed behavior, surmised that Joan had a boyfriend. She questioned Joan endlessly concerning her whereabouts on those evenings when she arrived home late, but Joan never revealed where she had been, or with whom. Her mother soon gave up asking questions. She never ceased making snide comments, comments that indicated her disappointment in Joan's behavior. She compared Joan to her sister Susan who did things the "right" way, marriage, children and a career. The implication being that Joan was a failure as a daughter. Joan accepted all of her mother's criticism with silent stoicism.
The only other remarkable thing that occurred during those twenty two years was the death of Joan's father when Joan was 28. He died on his way home from work. Walking down the street heading toward the building, he collapsed on the side walk suffering a massive heart attack. He was pronounced dead on the spot. After the funeral Susan tried to get her mother to leave the building, to move up to Vermont. She would be closer to her and able to see her grandchildren more frequently. Joan's mother refused. Joan was much relieved.
Joan and her mother had a stable, although an emotionally unsatisfactory relationship in the ensuing years. Then her mother became ill. She was diagnosed with uterine cancer when Joan was 42 years old and suffered a long and painful illness. Joan was by her mothers side throughout the ordeal. She dutifully administered to her every need, accompanying her to her doctor's appointments and attending her chemotherapy regimen with her. Her mother was grateful for Joan's assistance but unable to express her feelings verbally. Joan hoped that her dedication would erase, in her mother's eyes, her past, fatal behavior. It never did.
After her mother's death, Joan slid into a deep depression. The depression lasted several months. And then Joan adopted a cat. Walking home from the supermarket one day she noticed a small, frightened, fury animal bracing itself against the wall of a building. Joan bent down to investigate and fell in love. The kitten was thin, dirty and all alone. Joan brought the kitten home with the rest of her purchases. They needed each other. Joan's depression lifted. She had a living creature to care for once again, one who needed and loved her too. It was a match made in heaven.
All would have been well had Joan stopped at the one cat. But alas, once the flood gates had been opened, a lifetime of unmet needs was unleashed. Joan could no more stop at one cat then a drug addict can stop at one dose of drugs. She began bringing home strays, waifs she came across in her neighborhood. Joan rarely ventured out of her neighborhood; her only relationships were with store owners she came into contact with during her daily run of errands. She was friendly enough and people seemed to like her, but Joan was very lonely and the cats filled her life with warmth, and love. All she had to do was feed them, and they returned her devotion unconditionally. The cats became Joan's obsession; she could not pass one by without finding out if it belonged to someone. If it didn't, she was compelled to give it a home. Soon her apartment was filled with cats. Then disaster struck.
One day there was a knock on the door of apartment 1A. Joan, after looking through the peep hole, opened the door to the familiar face of the super. He informed her that there had been several complaints about a smell emanating from Joan's apartment. He immediately recognized the cause of the offensive odor. Shocked, stunned, he could not believe what he was witnessing. There climbing, scooting, sitting and sleeping were at least 20 cats of various shapes, colors and sizes occupying the apartment. With an angry tone the super let out a string of expletives. "What is going on here" he demanded to know from Joan? Joan feebly attempted to explain herself. She could not allow these helpless animals to continue living on the streets uncared for, she had to give them a home. It seemed to make perfect sense to Joan. She was amazed that the super could not see the logic of her actions. The super informed Joan, in no uncertain terms, that the cats had to go. She could keep one or two but that was absolutely the limit.
It was as if someone had punched Joan in the stomach. The blow felt like a physical pain. Her cats were her life, they were part of her. How could she get rid of any of them? The heartache, the thought of losing any of her "family" was unimaginable. Joan melted into tears, begging the super, pleading with him to let her find a good home for them; an undertaking that would take a while. He was unmoved by Joan's pleas and, convinced that the cats were a health risk to the building, demanded that she call the authorities and have the cats removed immediately. He gave her till the end of the week and informed her that if they were not gone by then he would take care of the situation himself.
All her life Joan had tried to convince people that she was a caring, loving person, not a murderous, hateful individual like her parents had made her feel. Again, she was being looked at with scorn, derision and dislike. All she had tried to do was care for living creatures, to act humanely toward them. She realized in that moment that she was never going to be loved, or be looked upon with admiration and respect. Years of unexpressed, tortured, pent up rage exploded inside of Joan.
What happened next was predictable. Joan went mad. When the police arrived at the building they thought a bomb had gone off. Destructive forces were unleashed, forces that would forever change Joan. She was brought to a local hospital in handcuffs and immediately tranquilized by injection. Joan spent three weeks in the hospital, was placed on a regimen of psychotropic medication and discharged to be seen within the week at a local mental health clinic. The drugs made Joan feel groggy and sleepy. She soon decreased the dosages of some of them and stopped others. The professionals who saw her tried to convince her that it was in her best interest to take the drugs as prescribed. She resisted their attempts and so she was classified as uncooperative. She was considered difficult and unresponsive to treatment; in essence, an unlikeable patient. She soon learned to tell the social workers what they wanted to hear. It was easy to do; they only saw her once a month for 15 minutes. She became more withdrawn and depressed. One day she stopped coming to the clinic for her appointments. No one really missed her. She was discovered soon afterward lying in the street not far from the building, surrounded by cats. She was dead.
CHAPTER 2THOMAS
* * *
The Denapoli family moved into the building shortly after Thomas joined the faculty of a nearby college. Thomas, his wife Sally, their two children Peter and Deborah and their cocker spaniel Blackie occupy apartment 2A and have done so since Peter, who is about to graduate high school, was a few months old. The Denapoli's have been married for 18 years; a marriage that they both would have characterized as "happy."
Thomas met Sally through a mutual acquaintance. They were immediately smitten with each other. Both were into the arts, literature and philosophy. Their conversations were lively and interesting. Sally had been an art history major in college, Thomas a student of philosophy. After graduation from college, they both moved into the city from suburban communities where they had spent their childhoods. They began to see each other almost every evening. Within a couple of months they moved in together. Sally worked for an Art magazine; she wrote critiques on gallery openings and museum showings. Thomas was an academician; he loved the atmosphere of learning. Sally and Thomas's relationship was an affair mainly of the mind. Although Thomas would say that he enjoyed sex with Sally, and Sally would tell you she felt satisfied with their physical relationship, the passion between them would mainly occur when they discussed some stimulating concept or social issue. Thomas was sexually demanding, his sex drive strong and active. Sally, who enjoyed sex with Thomas, had less of a demanding need for discharge than her partner. Thomas accepted that he could expect just so much from Sally. Sally assumed Thomas was satisfied. The couple was living together for two years when Sally became pregnant with Peter. They decided they would marry; it had seemed like an eventuality in both their minds for a while any way. They had a small, intimate wedding, only close family and friends attended. It coincided with Thomas's graduation from graduate school.
(Continues...)
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that inaccurate data is rectified; and
that your personal data is, in certain circumstances, erased or restricted.
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We collect and process data for the following reasons:
personal data collected and created in relation to our selling books and other items; and
personal data relating to our people (which means those people working for our company, or providing services to us, or potentially working or providing services to us, including employees, consultants, temporary or casual workers and contractors).
All of our people are required to abide by our Privacy Policy when handling personal data, and are provided with appropriate data protection training. Any breach of data protection will be taken seriously, and may result in disciplinary action.
Selling books and other items
COLLECTION:
We will collect personal information which may include names, addresses and other information for our customers. This will be done for the management of the commercial relationship with our customers.
We may collect this personal data from you directly, and also from third parties, including publicly available third party sources. Additional personal data will be collected as it is created by or supplied to us in the course of anything we do for you.
USE:
We will use the personal data in the course of making sales and to comply with requirements that we are required to undertake.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
in performance of a contract (the agreement to sell books and other items); and/or
compliance with a legal obligation; and/or
vital interests of the data subject; and/or
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be far less common:
where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests);
where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
DISCLOSURE:
We may share personal data with third parties as is necessary in the sale of books and other items, including to third party providers who deliver services to support the operation of our company.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.
RETENTION PERIOD:
We will keep personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Normally, our retention period for personal data collected for this purpose is a minimum of 6 years after the end of the period that we are selling books and other items.
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COLLECTION:
We will collect names, addresses, contact details, education and employment history, identity and other background checks (which may include appropriate criminal and financial checks and confirmation of the right to work in the UK), marital status and information on next of kin and dependents, financial information (such as bank details and NI numbers), date of birth, gender, a copy of your passport and driving licence, performance information and compensation history, recruitment information (including references), salary, benefits, pension and annual leave information, disciplinary and grievance information, photographs, information about your use of our information and communications systems and CCTV footage or other information obtained through electronic means.
We may collect and use special categories of personal data as required in the carrying out of obligations and exercising specific rights of us or the data subject in the field of employment. This may include information relating to matters such as health, racial origin, religious belief and offences or alleged offences.
Personal data may be collected from you during the selection process (for example via your application form and CV) and during your employment (including holiday forms, expense claims, performance reviews, any disciplinary or grievance processes), or from third parties, including referees, health service providers, background check providers.
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Personal data of our people will be used for HR administration and management, both in respect of the selection of people to work for us (including suitability, eligibility and/or fitness to work), and those who do work for us, to include learning and development, disciplinary and security (of people, offices and data) requirements, providing and liaising with benefits providers, business management and planning (including accounting and auditing), paying you and dealing with tax and NI deductions, assessing and deciding on salary reviews and compensation, conducting performance reviews and managing performance, dealing with legal disputes involving you or others, preventing fraud, monitoring your use of our information and communications systems, ensuring compliance with our policies, and equal opportunities monitoring.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
In performance of a contract with you; and/or
compliance with a legal obligation; and/or
vital interests of the data subject; and/or
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be less common:
where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests);
where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.
In respect of special categories of personal data, we may process this in the following circumstances:
in limited circumstances with your explicit written consent; and/or
where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed in the public interest (such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our occupational pension scheme), and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.
Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your (or someone else’s) interests and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public. We may also process such information about our people (or former people) in the course of our legitimate business activities with the appropriate safeguards.
The special categories of personal data may be used in the following ways:
in relation to leaves of absence, to comply with employment and other laws;
in relation to your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to monitor, manage and administer benefits and absences;
in relation to your race, national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
DISCLOSURE:
Personal data may be transferred to service providers who support the operation of our business (such as payroll service providers), to other third parties reasonably necessary in the conduct of our business (including insurers, professional advisors, regulators). These third parties may be acting as processor, or controller of personal data in their own right.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.
RETENTION PERIOD:
We will keep personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. We will normally keep personal data of applicants who we do not employ for six months after we receive it.
We will keep personal data of employees throughout your employment and normally for a minimum of six years after your employment ends.
Changes to your personal data
It is very important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and current. Please tell us if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.
Data Security
We have put in place measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those of our people and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and the ICO of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Where we store your personal data
We principally store data, both electronically and on file, at our office.
Personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA by processors acting on our behalf. For transfers to countries not considered adequate by the EC, we will ensure that personal data is adequately protected, as required by the GDPR. This would include by use of the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the EC to protect personal data.
Your rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to request:
access to your personal data. This enables you to ask to receive a copy of the personal data that we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
erasure of your personal data.
object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
restriction of processing of your personal data.
transfer of your personal data to another party.
Links from our website
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties that we permit to make such links. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We recommend that you check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on our website, so please ensure that you are viewing the correct version.
Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy.
Last amended May 2021.