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- Cheryl-Anne Millsap
- Username: catmillsap
- Location: Spokane, Washington
- Joined PRX: Mar 09, 2005
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- "This Child"
- Summary: A woman thinks back to a turning point in her childhood.
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Review of This Child
Cheryl-Anne Millsap
Posted on December 07, 2005 at 03:30 PM
There is an eloquent simplicity to this piece. The soft music and the direct, soft-spoken, voice of the narrator accentuate the poignancy of the story.
Told without bitterness, we get a sympathetic glimpse of the mother even as we imagine how the child must have felt.