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Updated: May 12, 2025

During the years when I was riding herd for my uncle, my aunt, after cooking the three meals the first of which was ready at six o'clock in the morning-and putting the six children to bed, would often stand until midnight at her ironing board, with me at the kitchen table beside her, hearing me recite Latin declensions and conjugations, gently shaking me when my drowsy head sank down over a page of irregular verbs.

Willa Sibert Cather - The Troll Garden and Selected Stories