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Quilt

This is used as a metaphor throughout the book for the creative way that women piece together disparate parts of their lives to create a strong and beautiful whole.

Spelman College

This is where Mary Catherine Bateson interviews Johnetta Cole.

Rumania

This is the country where Alice d'Entremont spent her childhood.

Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

This is where Ellen Bassuk is the director of emergency psychiatric services and where Ellen tracks the increase in chronically ill and isolated patients who frequent the emergency room.

Impatiens

This is a type of flower planted on the Spelman Campus, compliments of The Cosby Show as a thank you after they filmed an episode on the campus.

Austen Riggs Psychiatric Center

This is where Erik Erikson works, mostly with adolescent patients and developed the concept of a crisis of identity that occurs in young adulthood.

Iran

This is where Mary...

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