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Hope Chest: A Memoir Of Home, Marriage, And Objects, Emilie L. Duck
Hope Chest: A Memoir Of Home, Marriage, And Objects, Emilie L. Duck
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As a child, Emilie often imagined what her future home would look like. As she wandered through flea markets with her mother, she would envision the pieces she found there in a home of her own, building spacious libraries, comfortable bedrooms, and well-appointed kitchens in her imagination with the same passion that other children built models out of Legos. Although the houses always changed, there was an underlying certainty that she would eventually have one house—a certainty that could not be realized once she got married, and committed to living wherever the Army stationed her husband. In this memoir, Emilie …