Betty Smith - Maggie-now (1958)

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All four... had married in the same year... And all of their wives still wore their hair the same way. Why is this? Is it because they try out different styles to attract a feller and when they land him they hold on to the old hair style because it worked in the first place? Or is it that they don't care no more after they got a feller hooked?

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Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

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She felt, vaguely, that she had given away her childhood that night. She had given it to him or he had taken it from her, and made it into something wonderful. In a way, her life was his now.

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