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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 Sandwich Restaurant.
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Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixteen
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"Ingénue"
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #7:
Before Lunch!
by Angela Thirkell (1939)
https://angelathirkellsociety.org/writings/book-summaries/
History Brief: 1939 World's Fair

Middle-aged Catherine Middleton, married to an obtuse but endearing older man, is the still center of a swirl of two generations of “gentry” on the brink of WW II.
The activities of youngsters and contemporaries go on around her and it is only gradually that one sees how, without conscious manipulation, nothing happens without her.
The characters are subtly and humorously drawn—keep an eye on the hypochondriac and self-absorbed Miss Starter who displays a shrewd gift for defining the essentials and deflating the fatuous.
At the end, youngsters and oldsters are properly sorted out and paired off, mostly as expected, after several false starts.
Alistair, the older man who sets off after the “ingénue” is nudged back into place with Catherine’s sister-in-law (his contemporary).
She, in turn, sees “her young man” off to seek his dream, ...

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