‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is a 1991 psychological horror film that most of us have watched once, if not twice. It features a cannibalistic serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), pitted against a young FBI agent in training, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster). Lecter demands that Clarice tell him personal information about her life. I propose the movie is symbolic of both the CIA’s MK-Ultra program and the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking ring as, that too, appears to be a secret government program.

“Without drugs the banks and whole countries would collapse financially.” – CIA drug-dealer agent

My mother may not have been right. In fact, she wasn’t. But through you, I too, am getting a sense of her. What it must have been like to simply survive in her time. Primal instinct takes over when one is in survival mode.