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Title: a family's kitchen-table talk
Review: The charm in _Billy_ is in its capacity to evoke the kitchen-table gossip families engage in on a quiet Sunday afternoon. Family legends are recalled, and each story-teller reveals as much about himself or herself as about the subject of the tales. A member from a new generation, who is trying to piece the story together, is alternately bored by the repetitiveness in the stories and intrigued by the secrets that are nonetheless regularly revealed.
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