Children of the Dust1995

Shelby Hornbeck:
I've been haunted by my mother's death for so many years now.

Rachel:
I'm haunted, too. I found my mother hanging from the ceiling when I was just a kid.

Shelby Hornbeck:
It's a cruel message for a mother to leave her daughter.

Rachel:
Yes, it was. She seemed to be saying that life is too difficult, too painful, too empty to keep on struggling; that is was better to die than go through with it. I don't want to be like her. I want to have a life filled with love and joy and family.