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Part 1: Chapters 1-2

• Emily must explain divorce to the neighborhood children in Tenafly, NY in the 1930s.

• Sarah is injured in an accident, leaving a scar over and across one eye.

• On Christmas, Emily overhears a conversation between her parents and becomes hopeful that they will get back together.

• Sarah gets a job and meets Tony Wilson.

• Sarah and Tony attend an Easter Parade.

Part 1: Chapters 3-4

• Sarah and Tony get married in 1941.

• Emily loses her virginity to a soldier in Central Park.

• Sarah and Emily's father dies.

• Emily begins college and Sarah has three sons.

• Emily meets Andrew Crawford and marries him.

• Andrew is abusive; the two divorce.

Part 2: Chapter 1

• Emily graduates college and becomes a writer for a food magazine.

• Emily meets Jack Flanders, her boss, who becomes her boyfriend.

• Jack, a poet, is invited to teach for two years at the Writers' Workshop at the...

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