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Holly Iglesias The Panic of Ninety-Three |
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The woman has rinsed her stockings, starched the shirts
and now she hangs sheets by the single pear tree that is her delight. Baby, a
girl, the fifth in as many years, dodders by the willow basket, loop-headed
as a Persian lamb. Intimacy of March surrounds them, tender grass exposed in
patches, the scents of mud and sun higher in the sky, a frenzy of goats
banging against the pen. Flush as the promise of lilacs, the child rises,
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