Okay, this is really weird. As soon as I left for college back in nineteen-aught-seventy-two, my mother started sending clippings: first, newspaper articles about acquaintances’ weddings. Then the jobs, honors and children of these same people. Now, of course, the deaths have started rolling in, mostly of adults important to me when I was young, but also of my peers. Woven through these threads have been the odds and ends: a feature from Antiques Digest […]
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My Little College Girl
Tomorrow Lulu leaves for college. That day that I first brought her back from the hospital seems like two or three lifetimes ago, and yet it also seems like last week. Oh, wait: I never brought her back from any hospital. I must have mixed her up with someone else. She was born at home. I’m happy she got into a good school, and I’m really happy that she’s happy to be going. As I […]
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