The Woman Upstairs

...the only way you get on as an administrator is by understanding grown-ups better than you do children. You make a show of understanding children, but it's a show for the grown-ups. If Shauna actually got kids, she would have known that the three bullies weren't smart enough to appreciate the good sense of rules of tolerance and acceptance, they

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...Marianne is right that the age of thirty-seven--the first of my Reza years--is a time of reckoning, the time at which you have to acknowledge once and for all that your life has a shape and a horizon, and that you'll probably never be president, or a millionaire, and that if you're a childless woman, you will quite possibly remain that way. Then

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