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191 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1960
Aunt Elena doesn’t look like a mother at all — and, of course, she isn’t. . . I thought of Uncle Hal and remembered that I would never see him again, and I looked at Aunt Elena, and it was as though it were terribly cold and my sorrow was freezing inside me so that I couldn’t speak.
. . .
‘Uncle Douglas,’ I said, ‘why is it that John can show Aunt Elena he’s sorry about Uncle Hal and I can’t, and I’m so terribly, terribly sorry?’