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Slide 5 of 41

What is it All About?

• What is this author saying?
• Discuss with your partner:
• "Paula put down her pirn, wrapped her self in a paduasoy, and entered puerperium."
• Story about birthing
• Pirn — tool for weaving
• Paduasoy — silken robe of Japanese style
• Puerperioum — the time that was the beginning of labor to birth
• No access to meaning because we didn't get the vocabulary...