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The memory quilt

Article Abstract:

The author describes how she carted large bags of her mother's clothing around for eight years before finally commissioning a quilt to be designed from them. She wanted future generations to be able to hold on to the mother she had lost to breast cancer.

Author: Cook, Karen
Publisher: Gruner & Jahr USA Publishing
Publication Name: Rosie
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 1534-696X
Year: 2001
Social aspects, Design and construction, Breast cancer, Cancer patients, Quilts

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Dancing queen

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Eighty-three-year-old Lillian Angelo is the oldest member of the Twilight Tappers, a dance group with 16 senior women members. She also makes costumes for the troop and volunteers at a local hospital.

Author: Morris, Bob
Publisher: Gruner & Jahr USA Publishing
Publication Name: Rosie
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 1534-696X
Year: 2001
Aged women, Elderly women, Aged volunteers, Elderly volunteers, Angelo, Lillian

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If you ask me..

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The author of The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life shares her views and offers advice gathered over the course of her seventy-seven years custom, tradition and social interaction.

Author: Morris, Bob
Publisher: Gruner & Jahr USA Publishing
Publication Name: Rosie
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 1534-696X
Year: 2001
Methods, Personal narratives, Interpersonal relations, Manners and customs, African American authors, African American writers, Social interaction

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