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"Put on the Diamonds"

By Vivian Gornick,
Notes on humiliation
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[Essay]

"Put on the Diamonds"

By Vivian Gornick,
Notes on humiliation
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Sheila and I were best friends from age ten to thirteen. I lived four
blocks from our grade school and she two. She'd wait for me to pass
her house in the morning and then we'd fall in step as we entered the
building. From then until five-thirty in the afternoon--when our
mothers demanded our presence at home--we were inseparable. After the
summer we turned thirteen, something unimaginable happened: Sheila
was no longer in front of her house in the morning when I passed, she
no longer saved a seat for me in class, and after school she simply...

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