“Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could spiritually from Bridgeport, he reduced me in a matter of hours to a wriggling child, pleading to go free.”
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Maureen Howard, born on June 28, 1930, is an accomplished writer whose works are renowned for their profound insights and unique narrative style. more
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