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I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to understand how spooked she'd felt. I wasn't sure I could take any more abandonments. One succumbs so easily to mind spasms, worry spasms. [p. 95]Diane Ackerman
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Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!Diane Ackerman
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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.... We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children. ... [p. 15]Diane Ackerman
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Much more. We're joined at the heart."" Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky."" Too much boozing." His eyes twinkled, and he drew me close. "Not enough kissling.Diane Ackerman