The Wide, Wide World
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Your father has lost his lawsuit, and doctors say the voyage to Europe may save your mother's health, so she is going too, sending you, Ellen, to an aunt you have never met. In the days before you leave, your mother picks out a farewell Bible, and you finish the last errand alone, saved from a cheating shop clerk by a stranger who walks you home. No one names the morning of departure until it arrives before dawn, too sudden for the goodbye either of you wants.
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- The Carriage before DaylightNew York