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  1. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product {American cheese} after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.
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  2. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.
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  3. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    {H}e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names with no rhyme or reason . . . names that obviously didn't flow.
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  4. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    {N}ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.
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  5. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.
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  6. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.
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  7. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.
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