The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: Or perhaps it was another child who said: ``Mama won't let me wade
in the branch.''
Or another child said: ``Mama says I can have a party for all the
little girls and boys on the mountain next Friday!''
Then another little child said: ``My Mama has made me a beautiful
pink dress, and I will wear that to your party.''
Mama? My Mama?
Bessie Bell leaned against the little fluted post of the gallery to
the cabin where she and Sister Helen Vincula lived, and thought a
great deal about that.
And Bessie Bell wondered a great deal what that could mean: Mama?
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