The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

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“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my li…”

“She looked at the nurse. To Francie, all women were mamas like her own mother a…”

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonel…”