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I wonder what my diary will be like when (if) I’m 65– I wonder if I’ll be wonderfully soft

Oddly attached to these characters by this point. They smooth out and soften a little in age and as we get to know them

Valuable perspective as I’m thinking about my own parents as people before and during and after they are parents

Well at least she’s softening a little. Finally—

Ok fine — this is interesting if you let yourself chew on it like you’re in a trance in a hot car. These are hot car thoughts.

It’s smart stuff but not presented well is my issue

The unacknowledged weirdly lesbian-coded storyline in what I can only describe as a nauseatingly heterosexual novel is so strange here

This book is a drag. It better get really great in the final hundred pages…