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Article: Rewriting a happy ending for 'Ophelias'
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- November 26, 1996
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WHEN Mary Pipher was a girl, growing in Beaver City, Neb., population 420, she could ride her bike all around town, all day long, have no fear of helping any stranger, wouldn't hear risque tunes like "Wake Up, Little Suzie" on the radio, where the theater manager would personally screen films to make sure they were suitable for family audiences, where she could pedal out into the wild countryside and lie in the fields and gaze up at the scattered stars, and then go home where Mom, a doctor, and Dad, a farmer, had a hot meal waiting and no panic over where she'd been.
It wasn't so long ago, and yet it was a very long time ago.
Beaver City still exists. But Tupac Shakur plays on the radio, ...