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She was texting in the back seat, one of a generation that makes better use of opposable thumbs than any prior.
My father used to say she came from money, as if it were an actual place. Moneytown.
“But-for is the same trap as what-if. You drive yourself crazy with possibilities.
Good enough for government work, my father said all the time.
But that means it is subpar. Not good at all.
“Yes,” Lucinda said, after a minute. “She was . . . my best friend.”
I have heard mothers and daughters say this but I cannot understand how they can be ¨best friends¨.
about ninety percent of Delaware is wetlands. By the way, it’s not a swamp, it’s a marsh.”
I would never understand lawyers who weaponized the law against justice.
“ ‘West Philly born and raised’?” Dom smiled. “Everybody says that. I never know whether to thank Will Smith or hit him.” “I like Will Smith.” “All White people do.”
Imagine if Lisa Scottoline had written “slap him” instead of “hit him”?
