Word: ungrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jubilant; in fact, everyone is distressed. Julian's wife and sisters somehow know that they have lost him now that he has found his feet; his ungrown-up dependence on them was their happiness, his money spells their insecurity. They also know, learn, or are told many other things-for example, one of Julian's sisters has always had an incestuous love for him. It is she, acting through the simple-minded wife, who viciously contrives to get Julian back with them on the old terms. But they are not the old terms. Blindman's Buff...
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