, I don’t know how it got this way, and it wasn’t a don’t know’ of denial, but a geilennuy bafflement, a real moment of things clicking for her in terms of not having the ability see how she got from A to B. That struck me as really hopeful because the force of her I don’t know suggested she was edging toward I have to figure this out.’I felt for Paige and Blair so much, even for Bonnie, who didn’t seem shut down to the gravity of the situation as so many other hoarders have been. I also wasn’t sure about the conclusion they drew about the $10,000 they could have spent on fixing the heat. On the one hand, I totally get the logical inference. On the other, those DVDs probably spanned a long time, and many of us spend $5 on something to lift our days. Certainly, within the context of the problems the three of them were wrestling with, the purchases meant something a little different but I also had a lot of sympathy for them trying to carve a little family time, a sense of togetherness, and just something that didn’t stamp grinding desperation’ on their lives, you know?