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Lemoni is a young girl who flits around Pelagia's village. She cares for animals but torments them as well; she calls Dr. Iannis when she finds Psipsina caught in a fence and also pokes dogs with sticks. When the Italians invade the island, Lemoni becomes great friends with Corelli almost immediately. Though they can't understand each other, she visits him daily and tells him all about her day. This is how Corelli finds out about the mine that washes up on the beach, an event that Lemoni never forgets and talks about often, even into her old age. Lemoni is a serious and driven child who has no qualms about reprimanding adults. She shames Corelli and Pelagia when they don't collect enough snails and scolds Dr. Iannis at times as well. Lemoni survives the invasion and goes on to have several children and grandchildren. When Corelli returns forty years after the war, Pelagia describes Lemoni as being as big as a ship.
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Chapter 13
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For Lemoni there would be no freedom until widowhood, which was precisely the time when the community would turn against her, as though she had no right to outlive a husband, as though he had died only because of his wife's negligence. This was why one had to have sons; it was the only insurance against an indigent and terrifying old age.
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Chapter 43
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No one could recognize anybody else, and Italian and Greek peered into one another's faces, denationalized by coughing, by grime, and by mutual amazement.
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Lemoni Quotes in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
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Chapter 13
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For Lemoni there would be no freedom until widowhood, which was precisely the time when the community would turn against her, as though she had no right to outlive a husband, as though he had died only because of his wife's negligence. This was why one had to have sons; it was the only insurance against an indigent and terrifying old age.
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Chapter 43
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No one could recognize anybody else, and Italian and Greek peered into one another's faces, denationalized by coughing, by grime, and by mutual amazement.
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