1. Mothers by Anna Quindlen
To enumerate, the speaker implies that, "For a long time, it was all you needed to know about me, a kind of vest pocket description of my emotional complexion: Meet you in the lobby in ten minutes - I have long-brown hair, am on the short side, have on a red coat, and my mother died when I was nineteen"" (31). ... Fast and fleeting memories of bedtime stories, rare hugs, and sparse kisses, all blurry now and slightly altered with age, but I cherish them all the same. ... After reading Quindlen's short story, I find it safe to say that we would both end up trading places with the bickerin...
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- Approx Pages: 5
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