Word: leatherbound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turmoil and Panic. After the dream is ended, after the funeral and the departure of the two sisters, who have again become locked into their emotional stalemate, Anna opens the leatherbound diary in which Agnes has made entries during her illness. She reads Agnes' account of a day during the late summer when all four women sat together in a garden swing, "as we were in childhood. All my aches and pains were gone. Come what may, this is happiness. Now, for a few minutes, I can experience perfection." Anna draws comfort from this passage, and "the whispers...