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Jamaica Kincaid

“this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this is how you set a table for tea; this is how you set a table for dinner; this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest; this is how you set a table for lunch; this is how you set a table for breakfast; this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming;”

Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
tags: daughter, girl, mother
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At the Bottom of the River At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
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