I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
ALAN BRADLEYIt is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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