Word: girlhood
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...figure was absent from that photo op. Margaret Reeb spent the summers of her girlhood on Henderson's slopes, where her father supervised a mine. Her family has owned claims in the district for over a century. "It was gold seekers who settled the West," she notes crisply. "They built the churches; they built the towns." Her purchase of dozens of nonproducing Henderson claims over 50 years probably struck some as more sentimental than savvy. But now her holdings, on lease to Crown Butte, constitute at least 40% of its goldfield--a portion so large that the pact is specifically...
...strong--at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd, where the family had its own pew. In such a heady environment, it isn't surprising that Mia's godmother was gossip columnist Louella Parsons or that Charles Boyer lived next door. But celebrity seems to follow her. Her girlhood pet was the real Lassie's grandson. When she retreated to the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who should turn up but all four Beatles. They sang the night away. And while Farrow was in Hanoi undoing an adoption snag, she went to a commissary and found Mother Teresa eating...
...further illustrate her points, Kingston read passages from her books, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Chinaman and Tripmaster Monkey...
...quest begins with girlhood. "No one forgets adolescence. No one," she assures us. Certainly Friday has not forgotten hers. Apparently being tall in the South in the '50s was considered as gauche as being plump is in the supermodel '90s. Friday spent her teenage years in a height-eliminating, self-annihilating bended plie...
...left standing. But it was not a tornado that wiped out the town. As part of an aggressive expansion plan, the oil company uprooted all occupants and moved their houses to neighboring communities. Today when I go back "home," all I can find on the street where my girlhood house used to be is a wire fence with pipe stored behind it. SUSAN KILKUSKIE LUCREZI Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...