Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.
Gabrielle Hamilton
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
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This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.
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I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than pitocin in your IV drip, you can sooner control the date and time of the birth of a human being-- the gushing entry into the great blue world of a whole new person-- than you can the scheduling of a few line cooks in your operation.
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It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.
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Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel gutted..
[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.
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