Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along on their honeymoon. Foiled, she runs away for a night-a night of melodrama when Berenice's foster brother is fleeing from a mob and little John Henry is stricken with meningitis. At the end, the boy and the brother are dead, and Berenice is genuinely bereft. But Frankie, having turned the corner into adolescence, is wonderfully and callously lighthearted...