Once Upon a Different Time - Softcover

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Once upon a very different time, a little girl slowly became aware of the world around her, as little children always must. She found herself at the center of a series of concentric circles, the closest of which was the family--a family with too many aunts. Next was the Catholic parish where she would begin her education and enter into a life-long love affair with ideas. Beyond the parish and enclosing it was a New York neighborhood with its many challenges of ethnic differences, religious bigotry, the possibilities of friendship and the occasional vague, but real, hint of menace. The furthest circle of all was that of the world at war.Annie--for that was her name--would come to know the deprivations and privations of the home front. She would begin to explore the demands of a self and the need to confront others to answer the demands.Join Annie as she gets a lesson on sex in the Metropolitan Museum; plays her first--and last--game of football; campaigns for FDR. Watch her challenge the dominance of the boys on the block and the religious authority of her sister-teachers. Feel with Annie as she is numbed by the death of a classmate, stirred by romantic possibilities and, finally, determined to forge a new path for herself.

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