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Spit Like A Big Girl

"My father taught me that life could be hard, but that it wasn't impossible. I'm teaching my daughter how to eat with a spoon, brush her teeth and step up to the sink and spit." So write storyteller Clarinda Ross, who introduces us to three generations of charming and eccentric characters in this powerful, poignant and sweetly funny family portrait. We meet Carl, a university professor whose legacy for his daughter is little bits of wisdom she finds in his journals; Clarinda, who copes with her father's loss while raising a daughter who is developmentally disabled; and the loving Clara, who wants to be "a big girl," but still clings tightly to her mother's hand. Through this beautifully told, deeply personal story, we experience hopes, pains and joys of parenthood and realize that sometimes we learn to be grownups through our children.