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Having only a barbershop mug to remember my father by is a mood.

The weaning story is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Stop teasing me, Betty.

I'm glad this book was written in the Forties, because if it were written today it would be awful. There wouldn't be any hope. I like this type of social realism.

Now she has me wondering how the dad is going to die.