The Uncalled
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You are Freddie, a small boy in Dexter, Ohio, the morning your mother Margaret is found dead and neighbor women take over the room around you. Mrs. Davis and stern Hester Prime carry you through the funeral while the town debates, in your hearing, what your mother's life proved and where a fatherless child so poor should go. No household has room to keep you for love. At a meeting that treats you as barely present, Hester Prime calls taking you in a duty, not an affection.
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- The Child the Town Must PlaceDexter, Ohio