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How do you go on your first date after losing your husband on 9/11? It's been three years and yet Lilly struggles with hope and courage to meet the right kind of man who can help her find herself as a woman again. Kind of tall and kind of shy, Daniel is from another world in Lilly's Boston, a... read more
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- Lilly: Add a description of this character.
- Daniel
- Laurel
- Maureen
- Dr. Paul Osgood
- Margaret Osgood
- Frau Delarosa
- Dr. Stanley Marcowitz
- Anna
- Carla Greer
- Tim
- Mary Lennox
- Robert
- Paula
- Donna
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Bob Bell
- Kennedy
- Francis Hodgson Burnett
- Colin
- Jack
- David
- Bozo
- Oliver
- Archie
- Billy
- Archibald Craven
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“Psychoanalysis is an attitude of the mind. It is a commitment to accept the truth of a human life for all that is it, wholly and completely. And it is always dark, dark with what we push away and hide when truth disturbs the way in which we wish to see ourselves, and darker still when the truth is too deep for words and thoughts that do not even have a name. Can we remember this? Can we endure the truth of our whole selves?”
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- Boston
- Beacon Hill
- New England
- Indianapolis
- Chicago
- New York
- Secret Garden
- Cuba
- Iowa
- Saigon
- Hungary
- Memphis
- Europe
- Washington
First Sentence edit
"Character is destiny," wrote Freud. "The supreme and only lasting limitation on a man is the wall that ensures he cannot in the end go beyond himself." Daniel hoped devoutly that this were true.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter One: A Bit of Earth
Chapter Two: The Strangest House
Chapter Three: Magic
Chapter Four: There is No One Left
Chapter Five: A Tantrum
Chapter Six: When the Sun Went Down
Chapter Seven: Let Them Laugh
Chapter Eight: The Key of the Garden
Chapter Nine: In the Garden
Chapter Ten: It Has Come
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