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...mother comes up the hill she finds Helen poisoned, dying. She has eaten the contraceptive pills she used to prevent more life. The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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