Word: edna
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...change so little year to year because the holidays are a time for reminiscences, not for moving ahead. We save our forward momentum for December 31st. No matter how busy everyone is, there?s always time to review past tribal traumas, including but not limited to the time Aunt Edna mistakenly included a raw egg in her gravy and everyone was vomiting for days. Ancient customs reemerge the moment you walk through your parents' familiar front door. You and your little brother are both grownups now, but you still can't stand the way he refuses to rinse...
Roode’s Lawrence is less developed and seems a bit too aware of the situation. The childlike innocence he builds up during the opening scene, in which he instructs the imaginary Edna and Claypone in astronomy, is broken every time he lets fly with a grown...
...Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...early July, in sizzling, smoldering North Philly - no place for a 12-year-old African-American who happens to prefer Agatha Christie to street fighting. Every summer Edward Massey?s working-class parents, fiercely protective, hustle him out of town and down to Rehoboth Beach, where his Aunt Edna runs a thriving restaurant/boardinghouse. Well, not Rehoboth Beach exactly, Jim Crow being what it was back then, but rather West Rehoboth, that ?coloreds only? country on the other side of the canal...What Pate, writing from the heart makes particularly vivid is the way endemic, inescapable racism suffocates and ruins...
...going to feel the pinch more than anyone: Old people - "What do you mean, you want 22 cents to send this postcard!? Why, in my day, during the great war?" - and little kids - "But Mommy, I only have 21 cents from my lemonade stand! Now great aunt Edna will never get her postcard...