Learning Quote by Alice McDermott
““Can I play?” she asked finally, understanding, even at six, that the timidity of the question invited a single reply. “No.” Looking to each other, not to her. She watched them. The orders they barked were low and intimate, running under the sound of the wind. “Can I have a man?” she asked. “No,” again, but now their parents on the blanket together looked toward them.””
