Lives Across Time is a psychoanalytically oriented prospective study of emotional development of 76 people from birth in 1964 to age 30 in 1994. It filmed mother-infant interaction and used sequential psychodiagnostic testing and openended explorative interviews seeking to understand the subjects’ intrapsychic functioning. In 2023 two participants, now 60, contacted us wanting to see their childhood films and project publications to better understand influences that had shaped them. They came from two of the most troubled families described by the original research team led by Sylvia Brody, with mothers who were affectless and unresponsive. We provided films and publications. The two participants along with a sibling engaged in interviews that revealed marked continuities of emotional life (such as defenses, conflicts, and coping strength). Discontinuities appeared in the 60-year olds in that they were faring much better than psychodiagnostic testing and clinical impressions predicted earlier. Their resilience derived from several factors, including positive role models, access to education and psychotherapy, good intelligence, safe childhood neighborhoods, and a quality of affect hunger first seen in early childhood in their attempts to initiate contact with their withdrawn mothers.