The connection between the audio recording of baby Gifty and the adult Gifty is rejection. Gifty, as yet unable to acknowledge this truth to herself, expresses it mostly by resorting to the comfort of a scientific explanation. In this way, she uses scientific papers almost like a Christian uses the Bible: as a holy text that allows her to understand how the world around her works. In this case, she references a famous study about maternal rejection which also explains how a chatty baby Gifty might have become a withdrawn, suspicious adult Gifty: the babies who are treated to the stony-faced mother panic and quickly become withdrawn and wary. And Gifty’s attempt to connect with her mother by reassuring her that she does still sometimes pray contradicts her assertion that she’s unharmed by her mother’s turned back. The rejection clearly affects Gifty and still makes her suffer, even if she’s somewhat used to it by now.