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Lynne:
There were hunters and horses and dogs and ladies.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Kerry:

I've just finished reading Roberta Taylor's autobiography, "Too Many Mothers," and it's still sitting on my coffee table.

The fifth sentence on page 23 reads:

"It was her big brother, Patrick, strolling along with four other navvies, filthy dirty and laughing their head off."

I loved that book.  :D

optom3:
"On George Seewagen's recommendation,they enrolled me in the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association when I was nine"

From, you cannot be serious,John McEnroe.

I have already read it, but is still on the table and the book I am currently reading,Heath Ledger, Hollywoods Dark Star, by Brian Robb, has a photo on page 23, and a very lovely one it is too.

Lumière:


" Pesah fed all the workers a midday meal:  the yardhand, four boys from the men's bath, the barber who did cupping with leeches for the men, three women who came everyday for the women's side and to help with the children, her friend Sadie who did the cupping for women and helped her with cooking, my mother and me. "



From the [amazing] period novel, "Beyond the Pale", by Elana Dykewomon.

Lynne:
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

(Dubliners, "Araby", by James Joyce)

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