Showing posts with label Tina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tina. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Can't Buy Me Love (part 1 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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    When I carried a chair into the kitchen, Ma asked, “Who was on the phone?”       “Nadia,” I mumbled.  As if she didn't know.     Ma ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Do You Want to Know a Secret (part 6 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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I tossed my head. It was useless. The curls would never go away and I’d never belong anywhere. I hadn’t asked to come to America, I hadn’...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Do You Want to Know a Secret (part 5 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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After the Second World War, Aunt Demi followed her brothers Des, Spiro and Tony to America. She had sent letters to Pop and their sisters, ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Do You Want to Know a Secret (part 4 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Nadia’s teachers had no such illusions nor any such children. In Corona the motto was “Sicily Rules”. Corona had been settled by Italians....
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Do You Want to Know a Secret (part 3 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Nadia stopped ironing. I raised my head and stiffly gave it a shake. Nadia was proud of her work. “Oh, lookit ya!” I was disappointed. ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Do You Want to Know a Secret (part 2 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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The week before Easter, we were in Nadia’s bedroom. That room was a shrine to all things holy. The walls were plastered with pictures of J...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Do You Want to Know a Secret (part 1 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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In exchange for straight hair, I agreed to escort my cousin Nadia to a Beatles’ concert and to marry a Beatle, George Harrison. If I had b...