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Quote #7
[I]t was the face of joy, and not of care or tightness or worry I turned to them – too late for Emily. (18)
Motherhood comes easier for the narrator when she finds another man and begins another family under better material conditions.
Quote #8
She fretted about her appearance, thin and dark and foreign-looking at a time when every little girl was supposed to look or thought she should look a chubby replica of Shirley Temple. (35)
Things haven't changed much; girls back in the day still wanted to look like the latest teen/tween idol.