Francie was almost.Ĥ0 Two days, Francie came home for lunch and did not.Ĥ1 Laurie was a good baby. Francie.ģ7 Katie stayed in bed the day after the funeral and.ģ8 Just before Christmas vacation ended, Francie told Mama that she.ģ9 Francie and Neeley were confirmed in may. She had.Ģ9 In the summer of that same year, Johnny got the.ģ0 'Today, I am a woman,' wrote Francie in her diary.ģ1 Two very important things happened in the year that Francie.ģ2 Francie had started a diary on her thirteenth birthday with.ģ3 Yes, there was a great curiosity about sex among the.ģ4 When Francie heard Aunt Sissy tell Mama that she was.ģ5 Once more it was in the week before Christmas. It was in.Ģ8 The future was a near thing to Katie.

He'd take a notion.Ģ6 Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World.Ģ7 Christmas was a charmed time in Brooklyn. Some were made up of meanness.Ģ4 Francie counted the year's passing not by the days or.Ģ5 Johnny was one for taking notions. Since vaccination taught her.Ģ0 Katie's campaign against vermin and disease started the day her.Ģ1 Francie liked school in spite of all the meanness, cruelty.Ģ2 Oh, magic hour when a child first knows it can.Ģ3 School days went along. She wanted all.ġ9 Francie expected great things from school. They led one.ġ6 The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city.ġ7 Piano lessons! Magic words! As soon as the nolans were.ġ8 School days were eagerly anticipated by Francie.

It was.ġ4 Life was pleasant in Lorimer Street and the Nolans would.ġ5 Four rooms made up the new flat. She was skinny and.ġ1 Johnny celebrated his voting birthday by getting drunk for three.ġ2 Katie was ashamed to stay in the neighborhood after Johnny's.ġ3 Lorimer Street was more refined than Bogart Street. The Nolans.ĩ Johnny and Katie were married and went to live on.ġ0 Francie wasn't much of a baby.

Francie was.Ħ Neeley came home and he and Francie were sent out.ħ It was in another Brooklyn summer but twelve years earlier.Ĩ The Rommelys ran to women of strong personalities. By that time, the.Ĥ After she had seen Papa off, Francie went up to.ĥ Mama came home at six with Aunt Sissy.

Francie thought.ģ Papa came home at five o'clock. Self-Reliance: A Reading Group Guide ForewordĪs much as any other beloved book in the canon.ġ Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New.Ģ The library was a little old shabby place.

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