mother's voicemails

1: Lillian, I am not going to bow to Horst’s demands. That’s the way it is. Sorry.
2: If I cannot speak to you, I will not speak to anyone. Goodbye. Love, Mum.
3: -blank-
4: Lillian, this is your Mum. I really need to hear from you. Please ring me. Bye.
5: Your brothers and I have already worked it out. ​Horst’s got you over a nail and he’s, um,
manipulated you into hating me, and we would like to hear from you.​ ​Would you please ring
either Michael, Colin, or Phillip​, or myself, or your father, and let them know that Horst has
not got you over a nail. ​Please, do that, Lillian, because we have the feeling that that is what
happened. ​Please, Lillian, we love you, and we want to help you. I love you, more than anything
in the world.​ I went through three operations to give birth to you, so please don’t tell me I
tried to kill you.
6: I guess that Lillian, you’re never going to believe anybody. I guess Horst is your
favoured(?) person. Merry Christmas.
7: If Uncle Robert was still alive - you know what he’d do with Horst? He’d throw him in the
bloody river. Goodbye!
8: Maureen and I will be up before Christmas, to see you. And we will be driving up there,
parking outside your house, and we will be there.​ I hope you will invite us in to your house,
and maybe Horst can be … y’know, you can lose him for the day.​ ​Heh. Anyway, thought you
might like to know that, that Maureen is really worried about you,​ ​that she can’t ring you, you
won’t answer her phone calls, and … ah,​ ​it’s just your mum was calling, and Aunty Maureen.
Bye.
9: Lillian? If you don’t call me, or speak to me, then you are allowing your father to have
abused me all my life, and abused you - you’ve never listened to me, have you?​ ​Anyway,
everybody knows the truth, except you. You’ve never listened. All you do is listen to Horst.
And Horst is going to be over you {} Horst has got you, in a bloody, y’know, tangle. ​“Oh, my
darling, I love you, and I’m going to protect you for the rest of my life”. ​Get real, Lillian,
you’re up Cooks Creek without a paddle.
10: Not {having him?} do Merry Christmas, Lillian… ​I really hope you have a very merry
christmas - I won’t, but, hah,​ ​if you find your way forward, can you please send me a
Christmas card​?​ I love you - your Mum.