In Print: When Appearances Collide

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Here is what I read today that gave me pause:

"The housewives admired her thrift, the patients her politeness, the poor her charity. But she was eaten up with desires, with rage, with hate. The rigid folds of her dress covered a tormented heart of which her chaste lips never spoke."

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
1857

A clean home is only half the equation--