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At seventy, she was finally ready to push back the veil of her hair and show her face to the world.

mae’s last act as a preservationist being eve wow

that all those people came together for her in 95 is awesome
voyeurism is such an interesting theme here after reading new york

joan is to eve as clare was to irene redfield

"AA was the social scene of all time… All of L.A. was there: And the last straw was different for everybody.
My friend Connie said she had to fuck two midgets before she knew it was time to join."

“The Rodeo Drive was my favorite. It was movie stars galore and a nonstop party. Bobby Neuwirth [musician, former road manager of Bob Dylan] ran it. He used to say he was in AA to recover from terminal hip-ness.

i believe it that her letters are some of her best writing so this book offers something really unique and special in that way

P.S. Sitting around warching my facher die of what I’m going to die of is a hell of a strain on my shallow nature.

Joe, I mean, you've seen me and know I simply can't complain, it wouldn't be fair, stacked the way I am.

Because most books I read nowadays have dreary, sordid people who seem downright dreary and sordid, and the only fascinating thing about them is how the writer could have stuck to it all that time.