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“It was a long time since I’d been with children in the public schools.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/35301

“Going to Ford’s Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/16264

“Tall sails scraped the deep purple night as rockets burst, flared, and flourished red, white, and blue over the Statue of Liberty.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/13188

“I heard the news first in a phone call from my mother.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/167993

“What I saw first of all was one outflung hand of France as cold and limp as a dead man’s.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/197450

“The train was twenty minutes late, we found out when we bought our tickets…”

http://www.librarything.com/work/19897

“I seemed to be standing in a bus queue by the side of a long, mean street.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/4926

“When I began this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/343651

“This year was ushered in by a grand and most important event!”

http://www.librarything.com/work/217982

“I didn’t know Sylvia Plath.”

http://www.librarything.com/work/1170313