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The Corners in Time
Compy (Competence) Ames overcomes an isolated childhood, parental and professional prejudice, and her own unruly temper to become a lady surgeon in the 1940s.She loses the man she loves to her glamorous sister, Bonnie. He in his turn loses his most precious possession and it is Bonnie, not Compy, who goads him into regaining his self-respect.A young minister rescues Compy from danger and wants to marry her but she must turn him down. or give up hope of becoming a doctor.Compy has to take orders from a demanding surgical resident she despises (the feeling is mutual) and she tries to bear his unceasing criticism with fortitude. Only time reveals his true character.Compy lives through tragedy, keeps her head in the face of a life-threatening attack, amd ultimately finds happiness. more
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- Posted: Aug-15-2006
Life Lessons and Good Entertainment
This is a story about Competence ("Compy") Ames, a young woman who grew up in Brahamin Boston in the 1920's and 1930s and of her struggle with her parent's divorce, her overbearing mother and her effort to get to college and subsequently - in the early 1940's - to become a doctor in the face of...
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