John Irving Quotes
They Were Childless - Dan Needham Suggested That Their Sexual Roles Might Be So "reversed" As To Make Childbearing Difficult - And Their Attendance At Little League Games Was Marked By A Constant Disapproval Of The Sport: That Little Girls Were Not Allowed To Play In The Little League Was An Example Of Sexual Stereotyping That Exercised The Dowlings' Humorlessness And Fury. Should They Have A Daughter, They Warned, She Would Play In The Little League. They Were A Couple With A Theme - Sadly, It Was Their Only Theme, And A Small Theme, And They Overplayed It, But A Young Couple With Such A Burning Mission Was Quite Interesting To The Generally Slow, Accepting Types Who Were More Typical In Gravesend. Mr. Chickering, Our Fat Coach And Manager, Lived In Dread Of The Day The Dowlings Might Produce A Daughter. Mr. Chickering Was Of The Old School - He Believed That Only Boys Should Play Baseball, And That Girls Should Watch Them Play, Or Else Play Soft-ball.
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