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woman whose face was swollen. Behind them both, Dorothy, twenty years younger, held a sleeping baby.
Dorothy was there. With our mother. Long before any ballroom dance class.
I asked who she had been to Constance.
Dorothy looked at the floor.
The first woman she hid, she said.
She told us she had arrived at the house one night in 1986, one eye swollen from continue reading …
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