I still like the line, even though I cut it from my novel What’s Left:
Manoula, in the end, would become Penelope awaiting Baba’s return.
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Do you think a teenager would have uttered a sentence like that? Do you catch its classical reference? Or would you need to have it explained?
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Cassia’s roots included inspiration like this. Stairs in Patras, Greece, with view of Varasova mountain across the Gulf of Corinth. Photo by Jerome via Wikimedia Commons.
Jnana's Red Barn 
i’m going to resist the siren’s call and not voice an opinion.
That’s the worst pun I’ve heard in a long time …
Thank you. And shame on those who didn’t get the reference.