Soeur Dosithée has kept the letters Antoinette sent to her during Thérèse's infancy and childhood. After Antoinette's death, Thérèse receives the letters but does not open the tin immediately. In the letters Antoinette describes how Rose Taillé took the baby in because she lost her own baby the week before. Antoinette writes that she wishes the girls were not so fair-haired because they had enough "fair-haired people" to "last a lifetime" (45).
Thérèse reads these letters after she realizes.....
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