Near the start of the Great Depression, a man waits for college student Donna Smith—someday to be Donna Albright—at the trolley stop near her rural Virgina home.
—Michael Main
Nervously fingering his narrow lapel, he broke the silence, saying, “I’d like to tell you some things . . . Totally outrageous things. You have to promise me just one thing first.”

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  1. “Only Yesterday” by Ted White, Amazing Stories, July 1969.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ted White
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Lucia Ponzini

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  1. Italian.
    “Visita alla famiglia” by Ted White, in Il passo dell'ignoto, edited by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini (Mondadori, September 1972).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ted White