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In 1955, inspired by a televised automobile advertisement, twelve-year-old Sara Hellerud and her twin sister Susie took up dancing. Like the pair of huckstering ballerinas who sailed over the Buick, they vaulted over milk cans and barbed wire. The TV dancers had provided an irresistible contrast to the workaday world of their family's dairy farm in Polk County, Wisconsin. This and other fantasies shared by the twins enabled them to dance through a tense childhood and adolescence. From the vantage of middle-age, Sara recalls her early years with pride and humor. She also explores the process through which the twins unraveled their symbiotic, almost merged, identity to become independent young women eager to investigate the wider world.Product Identifiers
PublisherMinnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN-100873513258
ISBN-139780873513258
eBay Product ID (ePID)88122469
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Book TitleDancing the Cows Home : a Wisconsin Girlhood
Publication Year1996
TopicGeneral, Siblings, Sociology / Rural
LanguageEnglish
GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
AuthorSara De Luca
Book SeriesMidwest Reflections Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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