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...Sunday afternoon his neighbors nodded in satisfaction at the sight of him and five handsome daughters driving out in a fine rig along the West Country roads. But much time has passed since then, and with it Mr. Tucker and all but one of the girls. Florence died in girlhood; Nancy married and died before middle-age; Clara and Rose followed in turn. Only Miss Louisa, the eldest, was left to live on in the old house. So, at any rate, thought the neighbors. They had not seen Miss Louisa much of late, but they remembered her as "a sweet...
Those words marked the final farewell to girlhood of the lonely young woman whose name in history would now forever be signed: Elizabeth, Regina...
...year-old Chinese matriarch named Sin-shee Jang decided to spend her declining years in the village of her ancestors, a hamlet named Kutow in Kwangtung Province. Sin-shee Jang was an old-country woman: her feet had been bound, and she liked the quiet scenes of her girlhood. Furthermore, in Kutow she owned a 14-room brick house and was a woman of wealth and importance. She bade her five Americanized sons goodbye, and sailed for home...
...went to work in a sawmill and her mother ran a boarding house. In school the kids made fun of her. She was shy with boys. "Here I was," she says, "this strange little hillbilly ..." She went to secretarial school, and, for one year, to Atlantic Christian College. Her girlhood, she says, was full of insecurities. "What a generation. No wonder we are all neurotic and crazy...
Into this world after 23 years away from it, bursts the spinster's girlhood beau-a selfish, tinny charmer (Fredric March) who dabbles at art and meddles in lives-with the rich wife who knows him for what he is and even puts up with all he isn't. He buzzes, jollies, flirts, cajoles, tipsily involves the French niece in a minor small-town scandal. Though baseless in itself, the scandal manages to shake up the other people into auditing their close-to-bankrupt lives...