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My friend Carol says aging evens out
the advantage of beautiful women
over plain ones. ...
Where are the girls who were beautiful?

— Julia Alvarez Homecoming (1984)

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The pies browned, the pastries puckered
in the cavernous oven I waited to open.

Homecoming (1984)

My gay friends ask, Well are you gay or what?

Homecoming (1984)

I say, Don't trust those men with better,
bigger versions of love if they refuse
the small, shabby sample they gave others
the tribute of believing it was true.

Homecoming (1984)

The uncles ate seconds and rose in a chorus
...empty plates glowed like the eyes of the spellbound.

Homecoming (1984)

I tried to listen, take notes ...
...and stared out
on the New England meadow straight from Frost:
acres of grasses and flowers tossed by
a wind which whirled with the continual
roar of a thousand voices from Babel.

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