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     Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter.  How much do they learn? What must they learn, and why?  Is necessity the mother of invention?  How far must we go to survive?  We must turn from convention at times to make ends meet.  How do we manifest love, and what compromises must be met, and how do we regard each other when compromises must be applied?  This novelette exemplifies the calm and deliberate lessons that must be learned and applied in the scope of a mother and daughter caught in these dilemmas regardless of Society’s impressions, opinions, approvals or disapprovals.  This is an example of doing what must be done in the most appropriate fashion.  At 18, Chrissy comes of age in the 1950s, in its most glaring sense, when she understands fully what it is she must do to join her mother in practices that she has only known peripherally.  She does this with great deliberation.  It is time to act.

 

 

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     This story was written in its first forms in the 1970s, and the author was conscious of the trials young girls had to endure to be female in a world where females comprised half of the unions in the world.  He found it difficult to understand the instincts to be with a woman who was a playmate, a partner, the mother of his children, and representative of his own mother.  The dilemma facing all young men of all ages was all too apparent.  The idea of respectfully proposing what a mother of a daughter, and a daughter of a mother had to do to survive, and make the best of what they had to offer in many ways, led to this story.  It was updated in 2009.  There is a warning that this book contains sexual material, but to the author, the material is only material and not the subject of the piece.

 

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