My two sisters and I gathered around the plate, each waiting for Miss Frieda to give us the okay to take one.

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Returning to England after the war, my mother remarried and started a family, which grew to include me and my two sisters.

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My mother died when I was two, so he raised me and my two sisters on his own, paid the bills as a night watchman at the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie after years of playing jazz in New York City.

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On my right knelt two well-dressed women with the faces of sisters.

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