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When Kim handed me some of her husband’s condoms—“Here, use these”—out of one of their bedroom dresser drawers, could she sense the astonishment I was trying my best not to show?
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Since Patty got the lumpectomy, she won’t sleep with anyone but Cal, because he was the one who went with her to the hospital and wasn’t surprised when he saw the scar.
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Simmi's only been in New York three weeks, but the second night she was here Buck took her to a coffee place he knew, and now Simmi makes sure he takes her there every night...
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“Do you think she paints?”
“Her face, a little, But don’t you find her kind of bony?”
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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Every trip her mother leaves it until then: Shouldn’t she look for an apartment in a better area; shouldn’t she try for a job with some future? “And, you know, someday you could get married, Carmen.”
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In my own case, before Ellen, of course there was someone else. She—well, she was someone who I felt as if I’d always known and always would. And I think she felt the same about me.
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That’s the way it went all day with me—didn’t get far, didn’t see much, just, with Mary, drank tea here and there. A fine day it was, too; not cloudy, not raining...
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Snakes have no eyelids, no hips, no lobby in Washington (some creatures do!) and little support at home.
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...to know something people around you don’t know can put you outside of them. And then you can’t get back in...
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1987. Recently, I told a teenager who was smoking a cigarette in an elevator that he should put it out. “You a cop?” he asked.
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It is easy to look out on the Bowery and say, "There are the bums." Encountering one, however, even one who asks to "bum a quarter" or tells you he's "on the bum" the word "bum" slips away in one's mind...
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2 sticks soft (like your heart) butter...
... 1 cup crushed (like you) walnuts...
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...as a boy I rode once in an elevator with Colonel Sanders...
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...where I grew up the only celebrity one could count on seeing was Santa Claus...
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