What Waiting Really Means Family Dust tells the story of

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What Waiting Really Means Family Dust tells the story ofby June Akers Seese Publication Date: 03 01 1990 ISBN: 9781564783943 What Waiting Really Means is about emergencies that never reach the emergency room. It's about a woman named Mary with no last name who rides buses and smokes cigars and watches the wind blow her bedroom curtains into a frenzy. It's about cities: Detroit, New York and Atlanta. About older men. The kind who will hold you. And killers. And the boundaries they look for. The narrator is