This lack of early maternal bonding, in Pierone's view, caused psychological trauma that she addressed through her art.

[6] The Paine grandparents owned a family compound in nearby Hayden Lake, Idaho, where Sally and her sister spent their summers.

Pierone worked as a full-time assistant art director of W. T. Grant, the burgeoning chain of dime stores.

1950-1952 Sally traveled to Europe with her friend Mary Virginia Gordon, sailing tourist class on the Italian ship Saturnia, arriving in Naples.

It was in Paris that she took the job of art director of the Marshall Plan, working at the American Embassy and creating posters, booklets, and displays for the European Freedom Train.

Their group of stylish ex-pats obtained recordings of Broadway musicals, which they enacted during dinner parties at a Florentine villa.

In her search to understand the source of her problems, Sally studied with famed family therapist Virginia Satir and began to gain tools for reshaping her life.