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Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family's exile.. Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy's humiliation at the hands of his father.. Fred Trump embodied the ethos of the zero-sum game and among his five children, there could only be one winner. That was supposed to be Freddy, his namesake, but Fred found him wanting - too sensitive, too kind, too interested in pursuits beyond the realm of the real estate empire he was meant to inherit.