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[The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them][Dick
by Amy Dickinson

Published: 2010-04-27
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Dear Amy, First my husband told me he didn?t love me. Then he said he didn?t think he had ever really loved me. Then he left me with a baby to raise by myself. Amy, I don?t want to be a single mother. I told myself I?d never be divorced. And now here I am?exactly where I didn?t want to be! My ...
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Dear Amy, First my husband told me he didn?t love me. Then he said he didn?t think he had ever really loved me. Then he left me with a baby to raise by myself. Amy, I don?t want to be a single mother. I told myself I?d never be divorced. And now here I am?exactly where I didn?t want to be! My daughter and I live in London. We don?t really have any friends here. What should we do? Desperate Dear Desperate, I have an idea. Take your baby, get on a plane, and move back to your dinky hometown in upstate New York?the place you couldn’t wait to leave when you were young. Live with your sister in the back bedroom of her tiny bungalow. Cry for five weeks. Nestle in with your quirky family of hometown women?many of them single, like you. Drink lots of coffee and ask them what to do. Do your best to listen to their advice but don’t necessarily follow it. Start to work in Washington, DC. Start to date. Make friends. Fail up. Develop a career as a job doula. Teach nursery school and Sunday School. Watch your daughter grow. When she?s a teenager, just when you?re both getting comfortable, uproot her and move to Chicago to take a job writing a nationally syndicated advice column. Do your best to replace a legend. Date some more. Love fiercely. Laugh with abandon. Grab your second chance?and your third, and your fourth. Send your daughter to college. Cry for five more weeks. Move back again to your dinky hometown and the women who helped raise you. Find love, finally. And take care. Amy

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  "the Mighty Queens of Freeville"by Cherry F. (see profile) 12/17/13

WITTY and LOL fun!

 
  "The Mighty Queens of Freeville"by Allison P. (see profile) 10/02/10

The book was an easy read and shared Amy's story. Our group felt it lacked character development of the Mother and Aunts to show why they were the "Mighty Queens of Freeville." Another title may have... (read more)

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