Boys and Girls Summary
Alice Munro

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Boys and Girls Summary

"Boys and Girls" was first published in 1968 in The Montrealer, before it was collected with fourteen other stories and published in Alice Munro's first edition of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968). The story, narrated by a young girl, details the time in her life when she leaves childhood and its freedoms behind and realizes that to be a "girl" is to be, eventually, a woman. The child begins to understand that...

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