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Turning Apples

Elsje Van Munster

This is a collection of short autobiographical pieces covering various periods of the author’s life. Some pertain to her childhood in the Netherlands and others take the reader into her adult life in the United States. The mood of these pieces varies...

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Opening Notes

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Testimonial by Eugene Stelzig

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Testimonial by Mark Tochen

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Table Of Contents

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Publisher Page

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Acknowledgements

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Part I_Childhood & Family

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Chapter 1 Turning Apples

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Chapter 2 My Other Grandmother

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Chapter 3 My Mother's Kitchen

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Chapter 4 When My Mother Lied

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Chapter 5 A Child's Sorrow

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Chapter 6 Staircases

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Chapter 7 Memory Fragments

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Chapter 8 She is Leaving Home

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Chapter 9 Saturday Night

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Chapter 10 The Biased Butcher

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Part II_Personal & Relationships

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Chapter 1 Welcome to America

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Chapter 2 Meisje

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Chapter 3 The Missing Twin

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Chapter 4 Reflections & Forgiving

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Chapter 5 Lost in Translation

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Chapter 6 Lunar New Year

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Chapter 7 Immobile OCD

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Chapter 8 Deconstructing the Sick Room

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Chapter 9 A Change of Mind

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Chapter 10 Expiration Date

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Chapter 11 Gardening

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Part III_Animal Companions

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Chapter 1 Not Open to Discussion

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Chapter 2 The Lion Dog

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Chapter 3 Eviction

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Chapter 4 The Day I Almost Died

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Chapter 5 Rescued

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Chapter 6 Birds of a Feather

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Part IV Characters & Misadventures

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Chapter 1 In a Different Light.

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Chapter 2 1988 Fiero

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Chapter 3 A Bullys Concussion

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Chapter 5 Death in the Train Station

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Chapter 6 March Sadness

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Chapter 7 Terror in Tremblant

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Chapter 8 A Gauntlet for Glasses

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Chapter 9 No Special Favors

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Chapter 10 Profiled

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Part V_Odds & Ends

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Chapter 1 Last Time to the Well

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Chapter 2 Going Dutch

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Chapter 3 Eurail Pass

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Chapter 4 A Small Mystery

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Chapter 5 Hair Hair

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Chapter 6 The Russians are Coming

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Chapter 7 This Time its not the Russians

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Chapter 8 The Russians are Really Coming.

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Chapter 9 Old Letters

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Chapter 10 Dressed for the Ocassion

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Chapter 11 What or Who Am I

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Closing Notes

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