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«A Five Year Sentence» by Bernice Rubens

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«A Five Year Sentence» by Bernice Rubens

«A Five Year Sentence» by Bernice Rubens
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'Miss Hawkins looked at her watch. It was two-thirty. If everything went according to schedule, she could safely reckon to be dead by six o'clock.'But by the day's end, events have taken a dramatic turn and Miss Hawkins is sentenced to live. Forcibly retired, she is presented by her colleagues with a five-year diary.Programmed since childhood to total obedience, Miss Hawkins slavishly follows her dairy's commands until the impossible happens — she meets a man. As a last reprieve from the horrors of loneliness she embarks on a determined full-scale mission to taste life's secret pleasures — and pains— until the cup runs dry…