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“Velveteen: The Real Girl Short Fiction Collection: A Short Fiction Collection, By: Velveteen” is the story of a young Woman who travels back in time to 1983 San Francisco, where she descends into the seedy underground circuit. She subsequently triumphs over her "Manager” (Lil Boochie), as well as the symbolic representation of Pure Evil embodied in the character Jackie_drew. In the end, Velveteen goes on to find Love and Redemption at an eponymously-named Chicken Sandwi...
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Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirteen
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #4:
August Folly!
by Angela Thirkell (1936)
https://angelathirkellsociety.org/writings/book-summaries/
TIMELINE: The 1936 Olympics

In the Palmer and the Tebben’s families, we meet two of the less congenial figures among the Barsetshire gentry; young Richard Tebben and Louise Palmer.
However, since Thirkell’s people are never all of a piece, bossy Mrs. Palmer’s nasty treatment of Margaret Tebben is partially redeemed by her handsome apology and Richard’s heroic rescue of young Jessica Dean from a bemused bull leaves him unreformed in his ...

selfishness.
The action centers around amateur theatricals which include young and old, upstairs and downstairs, and affords plenty of scope for romance.
One is reminded of Mr. Bennet’s observation
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Incidentally, ...

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