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I think of fourteen-year-old Maria Theresa Beneventi, fresh off her first abortion, with no roof over her head, masturbating the owner of an industrial bakery so that she could keep her job and have somewhere safe to sleep. Yes, folks—those
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Each generation has its own horrors, but this observation by Gilbert stopped me in my reading to contemplate how far we haven’t traveled.
“The world was hers for the reading.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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Sherree’s 2025 Year in Books
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