Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

 

Suze Rotolo, former girlfriend of Bob Dylan has written a book about what it was like to fall in love with Bob Dylan, and Greenwich Village in the 60's. Although I have not read the book I have read a couple of reviews, where this self proclaimed liberal shares the difficulty of dealing with is rise to fame and the break up of their relationship after 4 years.

 

"During their turbulent, four-year relationship, Rotolo deeply loved Dylan, who was 20 when they met. She was there when classic songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" were new. She looked on with pride, then fear, as celebrity transformed him and other women pursued him. The author finally decided it was time for her to leave and become her own person. But not before an abortion and emotional breakdown shattered her."

 

From the review she seems to attribute the emotional breakdown to the breakup, I would venture to say the abortion played a huge part in the breakup itself….http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-rotolo2-2008may02,0,795835.story?track=rss

or in this review "The Post's Kyle Smith reports that Rotolo – the girl on the cover of album classic "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" – writes mournfully in her upcoming memoir, "A Freewheelin' Time," about her abortion and her emotional breakdown during their protracted split." http://www.nypost.com/seven/02102008/gossip/pagesix/dylan_girls_painful_memories_677243.h

 

I pray there has been some healing for both of them…