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Re: Sleeping With Me Mum



AEB, re

> > According to Pete his mother thought nothing of using her young son
> > as emotional bait to pursue her romantic encounters. Townshend
> > remembers a tactic whereby he'd climb into a pedal car strategically
> > placed at the bottom of a steep hill. Betty would then proceed to
> > push him upward, playing the damsel in distress. Inevitably, a male
> > passerby would come to the rescue. "It would be into a coffee bar,
> > he would see her again, and I would be drawn into this tremendous
> > deceit. When I saw my father, I would feel guilty because I'd been
> > in bed with my mother and her lover."

I interpret this not as some kind of weird incestuous troilism, more as
a guilty reaction to being in on the secret with his mother and her
lover. 

Anyone else spot the tremendous symmetry here with Tommy?

Cheers,

John