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Martha’s not my child, I’d say, as if I was joking, as if my feelings weren’t hurt. I would say: She’s my roommate. Now I can say, she was not my child, but she was the first member of my family. Martha was my best friend and my witness. I had been on my own for so long, swimming upstream, and now I had a partner in it. There’s a bright line betwee... See more
Jean • My best friend and my witness
I didn’t know how old Martha was. Maybe she was 11. Maybe she was 27. Probably something in between. Before she came to live with me, she lived in Puerto Rico, she had two puppies, she was cared for by someone who house trained her and also made her afraid of newspapers. Martha was loving and enigmatic. Independent. When we lived in Brooklyn, she w... See more
Jean • My best friend and my witness
I was friends with Debra Larsen and Bruce Bockmann (who was Morgan’s most playful partner, choosing once, when I was a young associate, to introduce us to a new client with our roles reversed)
Robert Lessin • Lessin's Lessons
Mort Leven played in the orchestra at Twentieth Century-Fox. They paid him $150 a week, which, in 1949 when he went “under contract,” was a comfortable salary. It allowed him to put a down payment on their house in Santa Monica where they could live happily ever after for as long as ever after would bear up.
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
This motion requires a two-thirds vote.
Doris P. Zimmerman • Robert's Rules in Plain English 2e: A Readable, Authoritative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Running Meetings
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