Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham, pioneers in child psychoanalysis, were soulmates for 55 years. They lived and worked together until their deaths, Dorothy in 1979, Anna in 1982. Theirs was a deep and caring relationship, Anna serving as a surrogate parent for Dorothy's four children. It was a bonded friendship likened to those which women cherished in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their hope was to spend eternity together.
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