Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember

by Lauren Graham

Sometimes we polish an experience to make facts line up more closely with feelings or exaggerate moments to make a better dinner party tale. And sometimes, mercifully, details become blurry over time, maybe because the sharp reality is too painful to carry.

“Someday” doesn’t like to tell you when it plans to arrive. Maybe the

I taught myself another version containing shorter answers that were on a sliding scale of truthful.

Making a decision is more important than making the right decision three hours too late.

I felt overwhelmed and trapped by the choices I’d made as well as the ones over which I had no control:

She was intimidating and artistic and dreamy. She had a laugh like champagne spilling out of the bottle.