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Don’t get married to someone who requires that you act quote, unquote, ‘normal’ in order to please him, okay? You don’t have to be anybody’s idea of normal. You’re wonderful and you’re an acquired taste, not just some generic woman who might be a match for just any old random guy. Remember that, and let him see the whole wonderful you. Psychic appointments and all. Just do it before the wedding, rather than after, maybe.”
Great advice!
my tendency to hide in my apartment taking three-hour baths on Saturday afternoons (with books and candles stacked on the side of the tub), my alarming lack of cooking skills, or the fact that I’m phobic about spiders,
It me lol
We don’t leave the park together. He goes first, walking rapidly, and he tells me to wait a few minutes before I follow and go back to my apartment. I think I hate this.
The first of MANY red flags!
She was so feisty, so opinionated, such a brilliant hard-ass.”
Words to be spoken at my funeral!
Maya hides a smile and murmurs something about the fun times ahead at Nate and Nicole’s house, and Katherine says with a philosophical sigh, “Boy, if that isn’t the story of life. We all just want to be the only one, forever and ever.”
I say with more certainty than I have any right to.
We call these Julia facts in my neck of the woods!
“Matching socks are not required for happiness.”
other people don’t get to run your life, no matter how much they love you or how supposedly nice they are. You get to run your life.”
The whole human race with all its foibles and its problems: it hits me how hard people try to make things go right, and how scared they are—we are.
