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"The Wife of His Youth" follows Mr. Ryder, a biracial man who was born and reared free before the Civil War. He heads the "Blue Veins Society", a social organization for colored people in a northern town; the membership consists of people with a high proportion of European ancestry, who look more white than black.
"The Passing of Grandison" is a short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published in the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899). [1] The story takes place in the United States in the early 1850s, [ 2 ] at the time of anti-slavery sentiment and the abolitionist movement in the Northern United States ...
Deborah Heller, Getting Loose: Women and Narration in Alice Munro's Friend of my Youth, in: The rest of the story. Critical essays on Alice Munro, edited by Robert Thacker, ECW Press, Toronto 1999, ISBN 1-55022-392-5, pp. 60–80.
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This was my Sue’s 13th day in hospice. I held her hand, still warm. My wife of almost 45 years, my Sue, lay motionless, life draining from her body. Her thin, gray hair fell in tufts around her ...
The Food and Drug Administration's new rules on "healthy" food labels are voluntary and are scheduled to take effect at the end of February.
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When excluding volatile food and energy costs, the so-called core PCE was down to 2.8% in November — compared with a peak of 5.6% in September 2022.