Deirdre Mayfair also has an unhappy childhood being raised by her great-aunt Carlotta in the gloomy First Street house, until she finally goes to live with Cortland and goes away to college. She tries to forget being a witch and commander of Lasher (she is the twelfth Mayfair witch), but she gets pregnant and goes back to live with Carlotta. The story that she is going to marry her college professor, who ends up dying in a car accident, is a cover for the fact that Cortland is the baby's father. When Cortland dies, she curses to the air, giving Carlotta reason to call her delusional. Deirdre is forced to give up her baby to adoption and undergoes numerous psychiatric treatments, including excessive shock treatments that wipe out her memory. She spends the rest of her short life heavily sedated, sitting on the porch at First Street, wearing a nightgown and her enormous heirloom jewels.
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