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...steps of an abandoned courthouse a group of young men give Maria the once-over. She does not look up. Two boys are fighting over a bike at the corner of her street. She calls to one of them, who responds cagily, trying to determine if her walking companion...
...approaches her house, with the blue windows. "I want you to meet my grandmother." A small, shy woman is led out into the hall in her slippers. She smiles, nods and retreats. Maria shouts upstairs to see who is home. "You won't meet him. He'll be out drinking until late." She calls to her sister in Spanish. Cara, the youngest, comes downstairs in her pajamas and greets the stranger politely, as Maria's eyes suddenly shine with a prospective joke: "Cara," she says, "this is your real father...
...that. Those ballet lessons Rose is so delighted with cost $500. Anita is very careful to do two things at once with Rose: to make her believe that everything is possible, and to prepare her for defeat, so that she won't collapse. That strategy applies to Mallory, Maria, Tony and Ingrid, and, I imagine...
...MARIA...
Mary Paul and Geraldine belong to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, an order founded in France in 1641 as Sisters of the Refuge to shelter banished women. The order was renamed and internationalized in 1835 under the leadership of Mother, later Saint, Maria Euphrasia, who emphasized gratitude as the basis of the order's faith and works. "Vous avez un coeur fait pour aimer, fait pour etre reconnaissant." (You have a heart created to love and to be grateful.) Theologically, the tenet of gratitude is seen as the opposite of original sin because it grasps God as the source...