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All that summer, as no white people came to rent the empty, upstairs suites of the Valenti house or the Golden house, tension had mounted in the street. Only Negroes came. (first lines)

— Jo Sinclair The Changelings (1955)

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The first spring after the death is unbearable. Its inexorable, complete awakening. Its compulsive memories. Its intolerable mockery of beauty.

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The word Depression faded from the American air, but in her it would never fade completely, she knew that. (chapter Five, p177)

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They started off the porch, and [she] felt the poems moving with her into the street, like a singing. (p309)

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How fast the evening had passed, with its newnesses boxed one within the next like constantly opening flashes of excitement. (book 3 chapter 5)

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