The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.