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Roberta And Maggie In The Big Girls
The view or reference is significant because initially it was seen to Twyla as a place where the “Big Girls” hung out listening to music and dancing a place that from the onset gave the appearance of being a happy place. It also served as the place where Twyla and Roberta established themselves as allies so to speak against the Big Girls, coming up with names for the big girls that would hurl words back at the older girls when they were being chased by them. Conversely, it was also a place where to friends would unknowingly begin to grow apart due to differences in perception of the incident involving Maggie in the orchard.
The purpose of the constant reflection was to bring back a thought of a time when she and Roberta were friends and had

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