Friend of My Youth
A daughter keeps dreaming of her dead mother and turns over the story her mother told about the two Cameronian sisters she boarded with, one of whom handed her fiancé to the other. In another township a nineteenth-century poetess with a bad nervous condition hears a fight in the lane behind her house and takes something for it. Munro's seventh collection, in which nearly every story is a second-hand account of a life the teller did not live.
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