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Blue Hill Farm

This commune-type place is the site of a kind of rebirth, or clean slate, for a main character.

Hudson's Department Store

This place of business is the long-time employer for a main character, but it also represents the limited options available for women's employment in the 1950s and 1960s.

Drugs

A main character uses these substances to try to staunch the pain of having been sexually abused and neglected.

Detroit

This city is the place where the main characters grew up and, in both of their cases, wished to escape to see other parts of the country and the world.

University of Michigan

This higher learning institution is the site of many left-wing ideas, protests, and social change in the 1960s.

Shelley's Olivetti Typewriter

This object represents a peace offering and an apology when one old lover presents it to another as a gift after...

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