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by Catherine Anderson
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with the radio. Her entry into womanhood will be like all the other girls'—— a cigarette and a joke, as she strides up with the rest to a brick factory where she'll sew rag rugs from textile strips of kelly green, bright red, aqua. When she enters, and the millgate closes, final as a slap, there'll be silence. She'll see fifteen high windows cemented over to cut out light. Inside, a constant, deafening1 noise and warm air smelling of oil, the shifts continuing on. . . All day she'll guide cloth along a line of whirring needles, her arms & shoulders with the machines—— 200 porch size rugs behind her before she can stop to reach up, like her mother, out of her hair. 点击收听单词发音
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