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between
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between someone and someone else and between something and something else
Fig. [of a choice] existing between a selection of people or a selection of things. The choice is between Fred and Jill. It's between chocolate cake and cherry pie.


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But, as indicated above, my betweenness was limited to a spot among men of the research population.
One enters a generous double-height toplit space which is the crossroads of the school, and the angle-shift in plan gives it the necessary sense of betweenness, allowing it to mediate between the different territories around its edges.
Danticat's epilogue to her short story cycle forces the reader to face the experience of cultural betweenness and choices in the manner that implicates most directly, pulling her into the drama and suggesting that this is, more than just a Haitian-American story and dilemma, everyone's as well.
 
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