Christine Baranski

So we continued to live there for maybe a year, and there was enormous tension between my mother and grandmother.

And then my maternal grandparents bought a house near them in another part of Buffalo.

It cost all of $10,000 at the time.

And we moved away from Nana's house.

So I was suddenly separated from... Leaving Nana where she was.

Yes.

And then Nana lived there for a while.

God knows how painful it was for Nana.

And it was a tremendous loss for me to lose this woman.

Yes, I think so.

In fact, my mother wanted, you know, he came back from the war, and he didn't talk much about the war at all.

But I remember that my mother often spoke once my father passed away.

She said, I wanted nothing more than to be a stay-at-home mother.

Because I remember coming back from school, she was a wonderful cook and a wonderful baker.

There'd be donuts or there'd be homemade cakes.

She wanted that life.

And I remember the first eight years of my life being happy and secure.

And then suddenly this changed everything.

Oh, when I had to change schools and get new friends and a new neighborhood.

And it was, looking back, I think it was quite traumatic.