Stated first edition, first printing, flat signed by all ten authors; 288 p., clean and otherwise unmarked on strong paper only faintly age-toned; period photos; binding firm; boards without discernible wear, and clean glossy photographic d.j. has slight rubbing at corners and just one tiny closed tear at upper edge of back panel.

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Title

Ten Sisters: A True Story

Publisher

Mayhaven Pub

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

1878044494

ISBN 13

9781878044495

Binding

hardcover

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Unclipped

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Non-fiction account of 10 sisters separated in 1942, fifty year effort to re-establish ties.

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Ruth Waggoner once joked that she wanted a "dirty dozen." She got them. Ruth and her husband, Glen, produced 2 sons and 10 daughters whom they abandoned in 1942, when their marriage collapsed. The boys were grown and gone, but the girls became wards of the state in Mattoon, Illinois, and were subsequently adopted, taken in by grandparents, or sent to the Cunningham Home in Urbana, Illinois. This book is a collective memoir of what happened to those 10 lives during the last 50 years. Now scattered across the country, each daughter has contributed a chapter of recollections in what they call a "personal journal of shared experiences." Although they admit that no attempt was made to produce a "literary work," the women display ingenious writing styles. These are distinct voices reeking with midwestern, self-effacing honesty. In spite of early hardships and a troubled home life, their memories are of square dances, eating watermelon, climbing trees, and the undying affection that has made a family out of 10 not-so-little girls. Patricia Hassler

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