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But take that kitchen, for instance! Maud Martha, taking it, saw herself there, up and down her seventeen years, eating apples after school; making sweet potato tarts; drawing, on the pathetic table, the horse that won her the sixth-grade prize; getting her hair curled for her first party, at that stove; washing dishes by summer twilight, with the

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Dreams for My Children

Both artists, both soulful, both woman-worshipping monogamists, both aesthetes, both fixers and makers, both uncensored, both un-pretentious, both similarly self-effacing and similarly dramatic, both creatures of the nest, both passionate cooks and eaters.

El matrimonio fue feliz, y la influencia que la cultura y la sensibilidad de María Cristina ejercieron sobre el joven oficial resultó muy grande. Ella lo vinculó a intelectuales, escritores, periodistas y artistas tanto de Guatemala como del resto de Centroamérica que él no hubiera frecuentado; entre ellos abundaban los que se llamaban socialistas

By the time she was done with all of the refrigerators, the apartment was filled with the bass chorus of all the motors, a low, confident hum that to Rina was the sound of safety.

If Judy Blume was the Pied Piper, as the Christian Science Monitor wrote, then the Reagan administration and its champions were trying to barricade the gates to Hamelin. But they didn’t account for the fact that making a big show of locking her out only amplified her music.

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