She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a — Suzanne Jenkins
She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a — Suzanne Jenkins
She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a — Suzanne Jenkins
She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a — Suzanne Jenkins
She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a — Suzanne Jenkins
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She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a foreign language, their food was different, and she looked different from the children she went to school with in Corktown.

— Suzanne Jenkins
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