Unnamed Orphanage Workers
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2166
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Unnamed Orphanage Workers
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Unnamed Orphanage Workers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The women who work at the Memphis orphanage where Christmas lives in Light in August include the ones who find him "on that doorstep that Christmas night" and so decide to give him the last name of "Christmas" (383-84). Five years later two young women clean and dress Joe Christmas before he leaves the orphanage with Simon McEachern.