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"She had mastered a small geography of childhood, and in hindsight those years, although poor, fatherless, and filled with drudgery from eleven on, were, nonetheless, 'great years.' Emigration would give Sara a freedom from this tight world. But it was a freedom that she did not want. Emigration was, she says, not a choice she made."