My Childhood

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Speak, Memory Borstal Boy The Memoirs of Chateaubriand A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Bronx Primitive Grace Abounding Babi Yar The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas