The name. It was the way the family
named its daughters. Mary Easter Ryan married Hazen William Cruff.
She became Mary Easter Cruff. She was still Mary Easter.
And there was a small kind of women's power in that name. A power
to be strong when the men let their weaknesses seep out and soak through
dreams birthed in youthful eagerness. A power to know a special place
as home. A power to stay.
