<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I understand it and relate to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p align="center" class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">To a Roomful of Young Mothers</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p align="center" class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p align="center" class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">(A poetic letter Never Mailed, Circa 1975)</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p align="center" class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">by Alice Jane-Marie Massa<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> I
know when, in a room full of people,<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I
felt most alone—<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Good intro<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">line.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">most
different.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> No,
not when I was the only blind person:<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I
could and can easily deal with those common occurrences.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">In a
beige room, with wood-paneled walls,<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">you,
the several young women, sitting on over-stuffed chairs and sofa, <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">softly
and happily conversing about your children and babies,<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">made
me feel the most alone—<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">At this point I’m<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">thinking, “Maybe the writer has found out
that she cannot have children. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I think most people often feel like the
outsider . <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Many of us<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">feel it is a major part of what we are. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">It’s always comforting to know that we are
not alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">There are times when this feeling is
intensified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I remember once being in a cab going to a
convention . I was sharing the cab with 2 or 3 other conventioners. This was in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place></font><font size="3"> and
they were well informed hockey</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">fans. I
know nothing of the sport. All they could talk about was hockey.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">I don’t think they even knew I was in the cab
with them.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Of course that is not to
compare with</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">not being able to be a
mother in a group of mothers.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">the
most different.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Echoes
from the motherhood kept swirling around me,<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">but
you all went on and on—<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">your
never including me,<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">my
never finding an entry door to your hood.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I like <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">the word ‘hood’ here. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I had to think about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I have an image of a bunch of women with
hoods<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">on their heads and all facing towards
each other in a circle, <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">thus isolating everybody and everything
else out of their circle. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">In
the midst of cacophony,<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I
knew that I fully accepted the news<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">of a
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Saint Louis</st1:city></st1:place></font><font size="3">
specialist’s telling me, <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">at
age21, <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">that
I should never have children.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">There it is; suspicion confirmed .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I wonder where this episode took place,
though I know it is not a singular one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">Did it take place in a doctor’s waiting room?</font><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">My thought is that you are describing one
particular event, but one that was often duplicated. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Compliant,
I could live with never having babies;<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I’d like some elucidation on
‘compliant’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I don’t need it in the poem,I just have
the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Are you talking about a general part of
your nature, or just<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">your way of dealing
with this particular issue. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Compliant because it is the only option. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">What I know about the author leads me to
believe that she is not a compliant person. At all. She is an activist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">However, maybe the activism<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">is partially</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">a way of overcoming</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">a tendency
towards compliance. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">but
could I exist with never being a part<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">of
the mother-klatch?<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">This is a loaded statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">Why is</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">being left out of that particular</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">sorority more potent than not being</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3">
</font></span><font size="3">in the mother sorority?<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">? My mind and suspicions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">lead me to guess it is because family is so
important in the writer’s life.</font><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Would I think of that if I did not know
the writer?<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Exercising
nonconformity, <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I
never wanted to pledge a sorority;<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">nevertheless,
even after college, <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">you
formed other sororities<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">What is the ‘you’ here. The word is used
at the beginning of the piece. Is it a particular person, or is it a
pluralistic ‘you’.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">to
which I could never belong. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I
accept that I am a peripheral person:<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I’ve never heard that term bewfore.
(periferal<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">person.” I love it. I’m going
to plagiarize</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">it.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I am
childless, but I am joyfully dogful<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">and
blessedly bookful.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Close one door and another one opens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></u></b></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The other doors may offer more fruits than
the one’s we might have otherwise chosen to walk through.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Dear
young ladies<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">who
could only talk on one topic,<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">thank
you for letting me find and adopt <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">other
circles of cherubic complacency.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I had to work on understanding what you
meant by cherubic complacency. But I got it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">It translates to childlike self
satisfaction. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Here, it also implies that these other
pursuits <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">are sublimations of the need
for children and motherhood. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv2033387484msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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