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Many horrible people:

Yash is humorless and docile. I don’t recognize him. It’s a great relief to get back in the car. We spend the afternoon with his uncle Percy and his aunt Sue, who are easy and delightful. They are raising their little grandson, Jared, who loves Yash as much as the pigeons

I never liked Sam…now it’s HATE. Every few weeks Sam comes to town and disturbs that happiness. He stays with Yash and I can’t go to any of the parties they go to. My name is verboten. When they are together, I don’t exist, Yash tells me. All their friends know not to mention my name.

Her mother is progressive for the 70s: On the phone my mother tells me he has a Madonna-whore complex.

“I want to believe in humans. I want to believe that even at the last second, an AI can and should be overridden by a knowing, human conscience. By a moral mind with a soul. Now I’m not so sure. There’s a place for algorithms, a bigger and bigger place. But people have to be better, too. They have to not drink and drive.

Every accident in a self-driving vehicle is huge news, because it’s covered as if a malevolent robot has killed a human. Meanwhile some random truck driver falls asleep at the wheel and kills a young couple, yet we never once consider taking all eighteen-wheelers off the road.”

fails. Sheltered by our money and our first world comforts, we will always ignore the suffering of other, more remote people in the face of our own children’s suffering.

But if what Morrissey says is true, the same system intended to keep us safe could be deployed by the police as evidence against Charlie. Our minivan has now become a know-it-all witness holding up my family right when we need to be moving on.

Metaphor: But Tom had been stubborn about it. He’d had to put them behind him, in tow, and wait until they finally fell away, like those stages of the Saturn V separating and tumbling behind what was left of that rocket that just had to get to the moon.

Becky put her arm around Cal’s waist and drew his hip against hers. She was so scared, and sorry she couldn’t keep them down there forever, safe, playing with the trains. When they laughed, at least, they still sounded like boys.

George Lucas wrote back!

I love how she tells Basam she went to Texas to spend a week with with a man…not “a friend.”

Theodore story… Oh my. His father had a real Sophie’s choice, and as a result only he and his mother were able to escape Germany in 1941 when he was six. His father and his older brother died in Dachau.

I absolutely love that she wrote to George Lukas about Harry’s book or writing.💕

Absolutely love the letter civil wrote to Hattie if I received a letter like that, I would definitely respond

I absolutely love that Harry was the one that found Hattie’s address! And then, of course her address is cool… Miss Henrietta Gleeson, Hoply, the euro you YUL E Rd., fort William, Scotland.

The deterioration of her eyes is also a big worry, especially for someone who lives alone and is so fiercely independent.

I think Sybil should give her daughter a break. She seems very critical, even criticizing the name Fran for her child.

about Harry… He is Sybils former colleagues, son, and they have developed a bond. Sybil knows that he is brilliant, but his father focuses on his seeming inability to relate to his peers. He is not an athlete, is nervous and insecure, and even has what he calls “fits. “ Sybil recognizes some things in her own personality…also he fills a space left by her son Gilbert who passed. Now he overdoses on pills.

Oh… Gill dove into a lake and hit his head and died. Very sad.

Damn letter wrecked me. Do we know how Gilbert died? Somehow, civil thought she was at fault. Good foreshadowing.

I love how Rosalie and Sybil always talk about what their reading in their letters.

Reading this book makes me want to go to Annapolis and eat some fresh crab Yum

She tells John Didian about the CREEK who is sending her creepy note.

About: grief: “grief shared, I think, can produce two outcomes. Either you bind yourselves together and hold on for dear life, or you let go and up goes the wall too high to be crossed. For us it was the latter. “

Her letter to Joan Didion about her marriage gave a lot of background. I love this quote “he was a high school teacher (one of the only people I’ve met who always, without fail, places a comma correctly… Every time… And English is his third language ). ““When Gil died I went very far inside myself, and I suppose Dan was doing the same thing, it was Dan who continued to raise the remaining children”

Like the story of Harry’s romance or attempt at romance with civil. Civil Sybil Sybil he sent flowers as an apology.

Love this excerpt from the letter from Sybil’s birth mother “I hope you will tell her she was a perfect baby, born at Dawn under a pink sunrise. “It seems like Sybil got some of her way with words from her mother.

Talk about Gilbert and how his loss affected Sybil, and even her marriage

Oh dear, DM is not a fan. Foreshadowing I’m sure.

Great description of Sybil and guy in the workplace: “you really couldn’t imagine them ever splitting up. Butch and Sundance.… An opinion from them… It’d be as clean and neat as a pin.… You could see they were intellectual counterparts. They were a closed circuit. A duo. He respected her more than he respected anyone else…. if she’d been a man, she’d have been the judge. She was brilliant. “