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Contents 1. The Chairs & Domestic Habits of Fathers Are Explored, & Nick is Born - 1 2. In Which Mothers & Their Duties Are Considered & Contrasted with the Peculiarities of My Own - 21 3. My Education Begins Inauspiciously & We Travel to Florida - 32 4. School & I Struggle With Each Other, Plus Hard Times with the Old Testament - 54 5. In Which the Behavior of Fathers is Further Elucidated, & a Sister Joins Us - 72 6. Of War & Other Merry Pastimes - 86 7. In Which Mother Contributes to the War Effort - 120 8. The Mountain: A Pastoral Digression - 144 9. The Long Dark Night of Junior High School - 166 10. From Which I am Rescued in the Nick of Time - 179 11. Mother Returns to Duty, Plus Considerations of Sex & Babies - 191 12. Mother Finds a Way Out & Grandmother Rebuffs Senator McCarthy - 204 13 - An Embarrassing Episode in Which Gloria & I set Out on Our Travels & Come Back Again - 218 14. Being a Treatise on the Origins & Uses of Aunts - 225 15. Continuing Education - 244 16. Everyone Leaves, Everything Changes - 252 17. I Fail to Make Sense of Normal Life & Fall into Confusion - 260 18. My Travels on the Bottom of the Lake - 281 19. In Which I Am Saved Again & Live Happily Ever After - 296 20. That's All? - 303
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Holland, Barbara -- Childhood and youth.
Holland, Barbara -- Homes and haunts -- Washington (D.C.).
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.