Hello Robert,Here is a relevant extract of the article to answer some of your questions:"When she was six years old, Mary Trump used to play knockabout baseball with her uncle in the back yard of her New York home. “I was six and he was 28, or whatever, I don’t remember how much older he is than I am, but, you know, in his late 20s and I’m a little six-year-old kid.“He would still throw that ball as hard as he could at me. He did it once and I thought I had broken every single bone in my hand, you know, because he has to be, he has to win, he has to be better than everyone. He has always been that guy.”" ...."Mary’s childhood was traumatic. Her father, Donald’s older brother, failed to live up to Fred Trump’s “man ideal” and died a struggling alcoholic when Mary was 16, crushed by the Trump family fist. When Freddie Trump became a pilot with Trans World Airlines – a job of almost unimaginable glamour in the Swinging Sixties – his younger brother, Donald, described him dismissively as a “bus driver in the sky”. Mary’s mother was distant to the point of neglect.Mental scarsIt is a life that has left mental scars which could – and did – defeat others of the Trump clan. But rather than sink, Mary sought to swim, maintaining fragile links to the family as the phenomenon of her uncle grew ever louder. She helped Donald Trump with his book writing and in 2009 was a guest at the wedding of his daughter, Ivanka, and Jared Kushner. But the hurdles to Mary Trump ever being an “insider” were too great, a situation made crystal clear when she and her brother were cut out of her grandfather’s will. As an outcast, Mary sought “mental trauma” treatment and at one stage took ketamine to ease her symptoms.Academia provided a route to survival. She trained as a clinical psychologist and built herself up as a significant political commentator. ..."
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