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The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest

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Jul 23, 2014 07:36PM

The Curve of Time, M. Wylie Blanchet, 1968, Canada, MEMOIR

"M. Wylie Blanchet was only thirty-six when her husband died in 1927, leaving her with an isolated home on Vancouver Island and five children, the smallest one two and a half years old. When relatives advised her that she couldn't manage alone, she sent back a telegram: "Can't I?"..."

(E.B., p. 231)

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