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She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chances in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

Source: Passing, 1929.
-- Nella Larsen, ( 1891-1964), US novelist; Her novels portray female characters of great psychological complexity; first African American woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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