“Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid | The New Yorker
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Fiction, from 1978: “This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.”
June 19, 1978 Photograph by Nina Leen / Time Life Pictures / Getty Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk bare-head in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn’t have gum in it, because that way it won’t hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?; always eat…
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