Becca hopes that she might even find her elusive "missing pieces" in such a refined environment. In return for her work Becca will be "finished" - that is given music and sewing lessons and taught the refinements of good manners and society. They are a wealthy and well connected Quaker family who are in need of a companion/maid for one of their daughters. She is therefore not too unhappy when it is suggested that she should go and work for the Shippen family in Philadelphia. This is a confusing time for the young woman for her brother is off fighting for General George Washington against the English while at the same time both her mother and her step-father make money by selling to and performing services for the English. Finishing Becca: A story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnoldīecca feels as if "there are pieces of me missing" and she is not quite sure where she is to find these pieces.
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