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Plenty of days I thought I would be an English teacher because English was my best class and the idea of a life spent reading and making other people read appealed to me.
This is so relatable. As a teenager, whole world is like a candy shop when trying to figure what to pursue as a career when one grows up!
You could spend years in a New York apartment never knowing the people
Story of any big city. Sad, but true!
who live two feet away from you, but live on an orchard in Michigan and you will use the word neighbor to refer to every person for miles. You will rely on them and know their children and their harvest and their machinery and their dogs.
Neighbors
To be able to play younger is a great and fleeting gift. I had it once.
No one gets to go on playing Emily forever.
Joe and I turn off our phones because everyone we want to talk to is here.
Happy Family!
Either breakfast or sex. Not both. You have to choose.”
Those first few dates and waking up!
One week and my smoking had already vastly improved.
This was Nasty!
“What good. Is sitting. Alone in your room,”
And this is how I got introduced to Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland
Gerber tells you to put in twenty acres of plum trees so you sink all your capital into plum trees—”
Education into American capitalism.
“That’s because you don’t practice,” Duke said. “Look how much better your smoking has gotten!”
So nasty! Encouraging someone to smoke!!
She would never have wanted me hanging around for her sake. She meant for me to do something with my life, the kinds of things she hadn’t been able to do herself. But when I think about what those years away added up to, I would rather have spent them with
Selfless love of Grand mother. And never ending guilt of young people
We always turned the television off when we sat down to eat but we could watch it while we were cooking. That was the rule.
Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.
Also sad but true!
