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NEW YORK@AP@?Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose coming-of-age novel Daddy Was a Number Runner is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and vital portrait of race, gender and class,@stanley cup has died. She was 100.Meriwether died Tuesday at the Amsterdam Nursing Home in Manhattan, according to Cheryl Hill, a filmmaker who said she is part of the author@@extended family.@The cause was old age, Hill said.Daddy Was a Number Runner, published in 1970, tells of a poor Black community in Harlem during the 1930s as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Francie Coffin. The narrative is a grim panorama of gangs, gambling, confrontations with the police and endless worrying about money. But it is also a testament to the human spirit, whether F stanley de rancie@ growing consciousness of her sexuality or the tenuous bond she feels as she looks out on the street life of Harlem.I wanted to hug them all, Francie thinks to herself. We belonged to each other somehow. I ;m getting sick, I thought, as I shifted my elb stanley flask ows on the windowsill. I must have caught some rare disease. But that sweet feeling hung on and I loved all of Harlem gently and didn ;t want to be Puerto Rican or anything else but my own rusty self.Meriwethers debut novel sold hundreds of thousands of copies and, along with such contemporaneous works as Toni Morrison@ The Bluest Eye and Maya Angelou@ I Know Why the Caged B Zzft Bangor Rams hope to rebound in season opener against Edward Little
Dear Prudence,Three months ago, the woman who was having an affair with my husband died suddenly from an accident. I found out about the affair only two days after her funeral. I thought she was simply a coworker and I was wondering why my husband was so disturbed and emotional. He quit his job, saying it was too traumatic to go to work. She was in the early weeks of pregnancy when she died and my husband doesnt know whether he or her husband was the father. So,@stanley germany on top of everything, hes also grieving for a baby that may or may not have been his.I find it extremely difficult to be emotionally supportive when he wakes up at 3 a.m. crying and trembling ?yet I dont have the heart to yell at him like I want to. He says shes stanley cup@dead, so theres no reason for me to feel jealous or threatened, and ask stanley cup s for my understanding as he grieves. Weve barely talked these last weeks because I dont know how to respond to my husband when he cries and says he misses her and wishes she were here, then also how much he loves me and that he never intended to leave me. I asked him to visit a marriage therapist together and he said hes@not ready@to work on our marriage, and thinks he needs to see a grief therapist instead. Do I need to give him time to mourn the loss of his mistress@Or should I demand he focus on our marriage ?Just the WifeDear Wife,You cannot impose a schedule on someone elses grief. So I think you should let your husband fully experience his ?alone. If you are being asked to be a
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