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“It was a time of my life during which I actually believed that somewhere between frying the chicken to serve on Sara Mankiewicz’s Minton dinner plates and buying the Porthault parasol to shade the beautiful baby girl in Saigon I had covered the main ‘motherhood’ points.” Was just the beginning.

I have the poor habit of reading 10 pages of a book and then forgetting it for months. Anyway, I still love Joan Didion, and this one is proving a good compliment to “Notes for John.”

“The next time I was in Los Angeles and drove past the house it was gone, a teardown, to be replaced a year or two later by a house marginally bigger. Some years later in a Washington bookstore I met the buyer’s daughter. I grew up in your house, she said. Not exactly, I refrained from saying.”