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My husband opened the refrigerator door. Sliced eclairs were stacked on every shelf. "I'll never eat another eclair as long as I live," he said. I gave most of the eclairs to friends, to staff, and to the soup kitchen.
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Warm, spare, intimate and classical in form.
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Maya Angelou
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- RH Audio Voices, Random House Large Print, Random House, Incorporated
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781844081639
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“MY GRANDMOTHER, who my brother, Bailey, and I called Momma, baked lemon meringue pie that was unimaginably good.”
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director
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