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In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others children for fear of what they'd hear, one knew that they were speaking-or not speaking, keeping their unhappy silence-on behalf of stricken motherhood everywhere in the country.

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Diana Trilling
Age: 91 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 21
Died: 1996
Died: October 23
Literary Critic
Writer
the United States of America
Fear
Habit
Developed
Adolescents
Mother
Among
Drugs
Stricken
Others
Silence
Keeping
Sixties
Country
Hear
Unhappy
Widespread
Children
Knew
Speaking
Behalf
Parent
Everywhere
Sixty
Came
Drug
Motherhood
Use
Asking
Mothers

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