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Nell Freudenberger Discusses Grace Paley

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Taking Pictures Without Permission

"We hoped we were not about to suffer socialist injustice because we loved socialism," she says. Others hoped that before the tour ended, they'd be able to walk along a street in Shanghai or Canton holding hands with a Chinese person of their own sex,. "Surreptitiously, we looked into family courtyards every now and then to see real life from which, though in love, we'd been excluded."

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