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Maggie's Heritage

In Everyday Use, Dee is the daughter who could not wait to get away from her background as fast as she could. She hated her home. After her mother and the church raised enough money to send her away to school, she said she would never bring her friends home with her. When Dee comes home for a visit, she says that Dee is dead. She could not bear it any longer being named after the people who had oppressed her. So she has changed her name to Wangero. She takes pictures of her mother and Maggier sitting outside and makes sure she gets the house and cow in the background. She takes things that are old and hand carved. She wants the things in the house that are considered antiques. She wants the two quilts that her Grandma Dee and Big Dee had quilted by hand from scraps of material that dated back to the Civil War. Her mother tells her that she has promised the two quilts to Maggie when she gets married. Dee said that Maggie could always quilt more, she knew how to quilt. Maggie is the daug...

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