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One of a circle of neighbors who for a period of months sometime in the seventies gathered nearly every afternoon to talk and have a drink before dispersing to prepare meals for families loaned me this book or recommended it - I think I went and bought my own copy to read. I began it about 4:30 one day and think there may have been pizza at my house for dinner that evening because I barely stopped reading from the moment I began to the moment I finished -- which was around 10:30 the next morning
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I don't know why this took me so long to read accept that it was very detailed. We never find out who the point of view of the story teller is, but apparently she's very close to the main character Mira. This book was published in 1977. I was only 4 years. Now here I am at aged 37 and I find several of the women I'm friends with or "associate" with are having life changes like Mira's friends. People are cheating, getting divorced, trying to better themselves with education, just like in this nov
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Even as a teenager, I knew dreck when I saw it. Gaah!
I can't remember specifics about this book. It was published in 1977, and I may have read it then or n the early 1980's. I definitely recall reading it and vaguely recall liking it, but can't remember specifics. I just remember that I read it, because it seemed important to do so at the time. Now, I'm married for thirty-five years to my second wife and still very friendly with my first. I have two grown daughters as well, so if I am having so much trouble remembering the specifics, it must be ti
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