The metaphor is the expression "hang on" because she is not literally hanging off of a cliff or out of a window or something. She just needs to get through the situation until she heals. Poor Melinda!
<span>We camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. I would say this sentence has something of magic realism in it that the pygmy owls have "old women's voices" in other words their hooting apparently sounds like or conjures up such a sound.
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Unlike internet based buisnesses, Brick and Mortar buisnesses do not have the advantage of online commerce to the extent of an online buisness. Visitors to your buisness will have to physically enter the store to buy goods or recieve services, while anyone can visit an online buisness at anytime.