you gotta go to school, the fact that Mommy and Daddy wouldn’t have liked it if I hadn’t gone to school, the fact that I didn’t do very well at school, but I wasn’t doing too well at home either, the fact that dogs have such sympathy, loyalty, the fact that Anne Elliot misses her mom, the fact that her mom passed away when she was fourteen, the fact that everybody needs a mom, the fact that I have Mommy’s first copy of Persuasion, with her name in it, in her handwriting,
