# Kissing Grandma (Dead).

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-grandma-dead/832525>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 14, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-grandma-dead/832525 "2019-04-14T08:03:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-grandma-dead/832525/21 "2019-04-16T12:29:30Z")

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I’m not all that thrilled with kissing grandma antemortem. Post? No fucking way.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-grandma-dead/832525/22 "2019-04-17T04:34:56Z")

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> [@Hatchie](#):
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> You might remember it as the big revelation at the end of “The Three Faces of Eve”. As a child, Eve (Joanne Woodward) is forced by her mom to kiss her dead grandmother “so you won’t miss her so much”. The trauma is what splits her into three distinct personalities.

The movie doesn’t show this, but she had other earlier traumas, and the forced kiss was the precipitating factor. And later Eve Black returned.

> **[Chris Costner Sizemore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Costner_Sizemore)**
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> Christine Costner Sizemore (April 4, 1927 – July 24, 2016) was an American woman who, in the 1950s, was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder. Her case was depicted in the 1950s book The Three Faces of Eve, written by her psychiatrists, Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, upon which the film of the same name, starring Joanne Woodward, was based. She went public with her identity in the 1970s.
> Sizemore was born Christine Costner on Apr...

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**Author:** ![Dana\_Scully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Dana\_Scully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dana_Scully)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-grandma-dead/832525/23 "2019-04-19T15:18:18Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> I’m not all that thrilled with kissing grandma antemortem. Post? No fucking way.

:D:D:D

Totally agree!

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