signs of labor. "It looked like home to her, and the
baby (not dead in the least) must have thought so too. As soon as Sethe got close to the
river her own water broke loose to join it. The break, followed by the redundant
announcement of labor, arched her back" (p. 83). Sethe crawled into a boat that soon
began to fill with water. It was in this boat that Sethe gave birth to Denver. "When a foot
rose from the riverbed and kicked the
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