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  Why We Don't Wave

  Hannah Paige

  Kaia is a homeless single mother longing for a home and a name as she struggles to raise her young son. Scarlet is a stripper who is uncomfortably aware of the fact that without money you are unable to even be free. Desiree is trapped in an unhappy marriage that she tries to make the most of for her son's sake. Felicity is a teacher who has her time off work taken up with visiting her mother with Alzheimer's and is sent reeling by a shocking revelation. Four very different lives with their own sets of problems, as each woman tries to make a life for themselves while navigating their individual worlds. But when an unlikely set of circumstances arises and seems set to bring them together will they each be able to find their happy endings or will further tragedy tear them all apart?

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  Branches: A University of Maine Farmington Anthology Celebrating Work from Students Across the Arts & Humanities, Sciences, and Education

  University of Maine at Farmington, Gretchen Legler (ed.), and Joseph W. McDonnell

  Branches showcases student work from across the “disciplines” that make up the interconnected web of learning at a liberal arts university such as UMF. Reading through it, you’ll see what a vibrant intellectual and creative community we have created; all the branches of the tree of knowledge complement and inform one another, creating an organic whole that is truly more than the sum of its parts. This vision of an education has its roots in Classical Greece, where philosophers believed that knowledge gained through broad study across the arts, sciences, and philosophy was essential for creating free citizens who would be able to function productively in society by making their own informed choices based on critical thinking, rather than on unfounded beliefs or superstitions.