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marriage
But he seemed like such a nice, quiet guy
11.27.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsWednesday night as we waited for Australia to start, my sisters and I discussed men. Mary’s marriage imploded earlier this year, and Karen is now much less starry-eyed at the prospect of love and romance than Mary and I were when we were nineteen. Karen asked us how she could ever know if it was [...]
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marriage
What I see when I see you
11.22.08 | Permalink | 15 CommentsI found my place at college when I applied for Writing Fellows. I’d settled on English as a major after trying out everything from pre-med to American Studies, and the idea of telling people what was wrong with their writing, for money, was too appealing to pass up. I adored the other Fellows: the smart, [...]
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motherhood
Some days I am sure that deciding to become a stay-at-home mother was the biggest mistake I ever made
11.13.08 | Permalink | 24 CommentsToday, minutes before I exploded my new Pyrex brownie pan by turning on the wrong burner on my glass-top stove, Dick took the car to his scout meeting. He refused to take any of the girls with him, and, since he worked from home today, he never really “came” home before leaving right before the [...]
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