“My sense of being a child didn’t end with the discovery of a bloody rag from the Ku Klux Klan. But my feeling of time and context did change. A much larger world sprang into view. It would take years for me to find my own way in it, to make my own mistakes; that’s called growing up.”—Rosanna Warren, “The Fair Fields”

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