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the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff
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he fact that there seems to be no problem in America that can’t be solved by murdering your whole family or your boss or a whole crowd of strangers, and maybe yourself
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the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything’s a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold
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...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...
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the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime’s supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,
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the fact that there are times, maybe the most unlikely times, that you realize you're simply thrilled to be alive, and what a great piece of luck it is just to be a part of things, to have a body, so you can feel and see and walk the earth, for just a little while
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the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore
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the fact that I'd happily do just about anything for people, anything, even spend time with them, if they'd just stop hurting my feelings
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the fact that it’s unbelievable but every single thing alive has its own center of being, and looks out on the world from that point of view, even a worm, or a jellyfish, hamsters, owls, the fact that even a leaf has feelings, the fact that you know the leaves are enjoying this warm sun going right through them,
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the fact that now it’s Philip Glass on the radio, the fact that I wonder how many people in Ohio care about Philip Glass,
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the fact that a real apocalypse would be such a vindication, if you’d spent all this dough getting ready for it,
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the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore
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the fact that we like Julie & Julia, only we just hate the Julie bits, the fact that why couldn’t they have just made a movie about Julia Child
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the fact that if we all blow ourselves to smithereens, at least Pepito has existed, and that is good, the fact that it’s just plain good he was in the world,
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dogs can be trained to predict their owners' epileptic fits, but not the other way around
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their phones actually, trying to get inside them somehow,
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the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything’ll be okay, the fact that it’s like dogs marking their territory
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the fact that Stacy seems to feel some kind of rapport with that woebegone creature, the fact that whether this is because she feels fierce and free, or caged and cowed, doesn’t bear thinking about.
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the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren’t much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution
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the fact that most people live and die where they were born, or they leave home and live somewhere else for decades but come back to pass away, like migrating birds
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Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,” the fact that Mommy never knew what to say when they said that, the fact that she struggled with Italian during that year in Rome, poor duck.
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the fact that I'd really like to be reading Persuasion right now instead of latticing pies, the fact that I never seem to get past Anne’s first reunion with Captain Wentworth lately, because Jake interrupts, the fact that all the older kids were the same, the fact that I have to hide out like Anne Frank almost, to read anything, the fact that I should have a little closet to go to, with a chair, a lamp, and a lock on the door, the fact that I guess it’s called a bathroom,
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He photographed it, but it was kind of hard to make it out, like those 3D pictures I just can’t do, Duck Family Rescued From Pool, the fact that the Ackroyds kept finding dead field mice in their little pond, the fact that they came to drink and fell in and couldn’t get out, the fact that they should’ve put in some little mouse stairs.
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I cried with Daddy in the kitchen when we found out, bright fluorescent white strip bulb, blackness outside, snow, crown die-back, tiny ivory Inuit duck for using in a board game, Monopoly, two big wide Inuit snow shoes in a museum, the fact that I don’t know how the Inuits ever walked in those things.
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The fact that the first tarte tatin I ever tried was at Andre Allard in rue de l’Eperon in St. Germain, with its mustard-colored walls and ducks everywhere, duck, duck, duck, black water, slack water, duck with olives.
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Abby liked her too, I think, even though she was so attached to his first wife, whatshername, basement stairs, laundry, ducks, Newburyport, the fact that Revere Ware pots have that nice copper bottom, which keeps stuff from burning or something.
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Ming Dynasty porcelain, Mao jackets, cheap toys and electrical goods, everything, though not pot-stickers, or crispy duck and pancakes and sweet and sour pork and fortune cookies, the fact that she never ate her fortune cookie though, just opened it to see her fortune.
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I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!”, the fact that Maika’s dad worked on New Guinea, in the Anthropology department, the fact that I’d never seen anything like some of that stuff he had, masks and, and penis tubes.
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The whole restaurant was really about duck, the fact that you passed the tiny kitchen on the way to the tables and the chefs were knee-deep in ducks in there, raw ducks getting plucked, roasted ducks, fried duck legs, ducks cooked six ways from Sunday, the fact that what about that dish they had where the duck was served in a sea of green olives, just like a sea, like two hundred olives at least.
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The fact that Ben has a new riddle book, and wants to entertain us all by reading out every single joke, “Why did the duck cross the road?”, “To give the chicken a break.
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I just hope Stacy knows I understand it’s rough for her, the fact that it’s tragic actually, the fact that it’s just awful to lose your dad and never know where the heck he is, or why he disappeared, the fact that it’s like she’s just stuck in limbo, sitting duck, waiting for Frank’s next move, his next urge to get in touch.
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He'd never have to know why I made it, a negative energy cake, and at least it would keep him quiet for a while, because the roof of his mouth would be all clogged up, the fact that where’s all this aggression coming from, dear me, the fact that unless you’re upbeat enough, and immune to criticism, you’re just a sitting duck if someone makes a single untoward remark.
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The fact that making horses run in circles is an industry, the fact that why not mice too, or frogs or something, the frog-racing industry, the fact that there already is a dog-racing industry, and maybe ostrich races and piglet races, rubber duck races.
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Abby saved Mommy’s life in that duck pond, the fact that if she hadn’t gotten Mommy out of the pond, or if their mom hadn’t massaged Mommy’s arm every day for six months when she was a baby, Mommy might not have survived and gotten married and I might never have been born.
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Certain kinds of duck are very generous on the egg front, so we’ve had them laboring from dawn to dusk for thousands of years along with chickens, just so we can bake cakes and meringues and quiche Lorraine.
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The only way I could ever really feel sexy again at this point is if our kids all went to boarding school somewhere, or were at least out of the house for several consecutive days a week, the fact that that would be like a second honeymoon, just without the duck and olives, Musee Cluny, deshebillee, Niagara, Paterson, Cathy’s pear tarte tatin, the fact that we could have martinis and sit around listening to jazz and I could feed Leo strawberries by hand with black pepper, on the strawberries, not my hands, and we could christen every room in the house, and the ottoman, and all the other things we sometimes talk about, the fact that unfortunately nobody ever takes your kids away for several consecutive days.
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the fact that Mommy’s illness wrecked my life, the fact that it broke me, the fact that I am broken, heartbroken, heart operation, heart scar, broke
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They toured the den in slow circles, chirping enticingly, feeling out for any sign of her, just the trip of her giant paw or long whiskers. Longing for her warmth, her tongue, her strong sleek rump, they sought her with determination, for they too were hunters, blind and strong and unafraid. Too brave to despair.
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the fact that Stacy would probably approve of a global pandemic, as long as it included us, her nearest and dearest
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the fact that every few years they decide noodles are fatal, but I don't buy that, the fact that noodles seem pretty innocent to me, overall, and handy with kids
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the fact that Ben says there are at least sixty billion earthlike planets, just in the Milky Way alone, and I wonder if motherhood exists on all of them, the fact that I wonder if Land O'Lakes exists on them
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the saint of lost things, and lost causes too
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