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...truck. Her bail was $10,000; his was $3,000. He was back home before she was, so she sent the baby to stay with relatives while she tried to raise bail. The end came on a Christmas weekend. After a particularly vicious beating, he followed her to her aunt's house. When he came at her again, she shot him. "They say I'm a violent person, but I'm not. I didn't want revenge. I just wanted out." Facing 25 years, she was told by a female public defender to take a plea bargain and 17 years...
...much act as host for a talk show as satirize talk shows. He is following a trail blazed by Carson, who introduced a self-parodying subtext. Carson's famous "savers" -- ad-libs to salvage jokes that bombed -- along with his conspiratorial asides to the audience during corny bits like Aunt Blabby and Carnac, were a way of making the comedian himself the butt of the joke...
...page through my Roget's Thesaurus to find the proper word to describe it. And I was saddened by the thought that ours might be the only such event I would ever experience at this school where most room parties are about as exciting as your aunt's collection of porcelain figurines...
...book tells the story of Virginia King, a black woman in her twenties from a middle-class family in Akron, Ohio--Dove's hometown. Virginia returns to Akron as a visiting artist at an elementary school for a few weeks, during which she visits her grandmother and an estranged aunt...
...climax of the novel Virginia is told by her aunt the reason for her family's sudden uprooting to Arizona: Virginia's mother's discovery of her father's incestuous relationship with his sister...