Jeanette is more curious about than haunted by the woman’s prediction and begins wondering at an early age what her future will hold. When she is very young, Jeanette meets a gypsy woman who foretells that she will never marry and will never be able to be still. Jeanette, who is adopted, was brought into her mother’s home to join her in a “tag match against the rest of the world.” Jeanette’s childhood is full of rigorous daily prayer, and she spends most of her time assisting her mother, who is very involved with their Evangelist church. Her mother was combative, devout, and saw the world in black-and-white. When Jeanette was a girl, she writes, she lived, like most people, with her mother and father.
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