By Jane Campion  -- from the movie 'the piano'
Date: 1 October 2000

- Flora telling aunt Morag how Ada became mute -

"One day my mother and father was singing together in  the forest, great storm blew up out of nowhere. But so passioned was their singing that they did not notice, nor did they stop as the rain began to fall. And when their  voices rose for the final phase of the duet, a great bolt  lightning came out of the sky and struck my father so he ignited up as a torch. To the same moment as my father was struck dead, my mother was struck dumb. She never spoke another word. "

                                                                                                                                                            
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