Word: sybille
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This time the family whose strangely assorted Linen hangs out to dry is an odd lot of small-town Virginians. Their matriarch, now dying peacefully, may have helped herself to widowhood with an ax some years ago and then dropped her defunct husband down a well. That possibility thrusts itself...
Smith is interested in her plot, but she is fascinated by her people. Not judging, just watching in an amiable way, she gives us Sybill, prim, quivering with repression, afraid that the hypnotist is a fake, terrified that he is not. She shows us another daughter, a hairdresser named Candy...
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