In the end, Amanda's mother felt she was dead. If there is a heaven, I hope Louawn knows her daughter is safe at last
If there is a heaven, then when Louwanna Berry got there she got her heart broken yet again, since Sylvia Browne basically promised her that she'd see her daughter again on "the other side". I imagine it would be pretty hard to celebrate when your long-lost daughter was stolen from you
again. Theoretically, Louwanna Berry wouldn't know that her daughter was safe, but only that she was alive. It wouldn't be hard to imagine what kind of misery and abuse her daughter was suffering if she hadn't been seen or heard from in years. I imagine that she'd be even more heartbroken when she heard this news.
Of course, I don't really believe that there's a heaven. If there were, and it were anything like the general conception that people have of heaven, this kind of thing wouldn't happen in the first place.
GOOD. There really isn't enough flak in the world to pay Sylvia Browne back for the way she deceives and preys on some of society's most vulnerable people at their worst moments.
I really can't blame Sylvia Browne's victims for falling for her pap. There's so much ignorance about how these scams work and so many people who insist that psychic powers are real that it's really hard for people to know who to believe in, and to be able to discern what's real and what's not. Keep in mind that this is a world where people still get badly mis-spelled emails from the children of Nigerian royalty who just need a few thousand dollars to get the family fortune out of storage, and some of those people are still falling for it even now, in 2013.
I have a pretty hard time blaming people for their own stupidity. Stupid people are among the most vulnerable people in our society and make very good victims.