Nothing could better show that May had a big idea of herself. It makes her more American than Irish even before she steps aboard - that belief in abundance, that confidence that, when this money is spent, there'd be more money.

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This or that ideologue goes to great pains to deny women like May a common humanity with the rest of us. She was excluded from every community. She was thrown out of memory. Well, I want her back in, and I want her such as she was.

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