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Amy Fisher

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The Myth of Amy Fisher

We've only made one movie about like Margaret Thatcher. Why do we have to worry about Amy Fisher? It's so weird. She describes in her memoir, If I Knew Then, which is the one of hers that she has not disavowed yet. Her parents both worked extremely hard and basically had this belief shared by a lot of American families at the time: We're going to work really hard and make as much money as we possibly physically can. And as a result, Amy Fisher grows up really lonely. The way Amy Fisher describes it, suffering and silence basically each concealing their abuse from the other.

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