title: Safekeeping: Some True Stories From a Life
author:  Abigail Thomas 
description: In a series of poignant vignettes, each complete within itself, Thomas succeeds in conveying an engrossing life story in surprising depth. A novelist (An Actual Life), teacher of creative writing and grandmother of six, Thomas is a fine writer who spells out the bare facts of her life with dispatch. Pregnant at 18, she married the first of her three husbands. After eight years, she and her three children moved to her parents' house in New York. After several years, she remarried. With her second husband, a physicist, she had one child before they divorced. Eleven years later, she married her present husband. Thomas looks back at her younger self with affection, drawing a compassionate portrait of a young woman seeking to make a life for herself and her children, coping with domestic chores and her own conflicting needs. Thomas writes with serious intent and dark humor about her parents, her sister, motherhood, her children and grandchildren, but her most affecting scenes describe the illness and death of the man who was her second husband. Even the structure of her memoir is elegiac, with its three parts titled "Before," "Mortality" and "Here and Now." Sorrow mixes with joy in this beautifully crafted memoir as she remembers her second spouse as a lover, husband and, finally, friend. <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: R E I N I N G  H E R  I N
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  By
  Dani Wyatt
  
  Reader Note:  ‘Reining Her In’ was first published as ‘Riding Through’
  as part of the HOT FOR TEACHER ANTHOLOGY.
  Copyright © 2016
  by Dani Wyatt
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  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
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  Table of Contents
  Title Page
  Copyright Page
  Reining Her In
  C H A P T E R  O N E
  C H A P T E R  T W O
  C H A P T E R  T H R E E
  C H A P T E R  F O U R
  C H A P T E R  F I V E
  C H A P T E R  S I X
  C H A P T E R  S E V E N
  C H A P T E R