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itselv
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"Every so often your children come to visit.
They are, amazingly, completely charming people. You can't believe you're lucky enough to know them. You love them madly. They survived you. You survived them. It crosses your mind that on some level, you spent hours and days and months and years without laying a glove on them, but don't dwell. There's no point. It's over.
Except for the worrying. The worrying is forever."
— Jul 14, 2026 05:30PM
They are, amazingly, completely charming people. You can't believe you're lucky enough to know them. You love them madly. They survived you. You survived them. It crosses your mind that on some level, you spent hours and days and months and years without laying a glove on them, but don't dwell. There's no point. It's over.
Except for the worrying. The worrying is forever."
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itselv
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"I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative."
— Jul 16, 2026 04:30PM
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Skipping On maintenance chapter!
Read the 1st half of it and didn't like the tone.
I despise talking about women's beauty and care as a chore we all hate but have to do, without talking about why we feel so.
The author is aware of how much nonsense and unattainable expectations are there, but still extends the worries and insecurities to the reader.
— Jul 14, 2026 06:52AM
Read the 1st half of it and didn't like the tone.
I despise talking about women's beauty and care as a chore we all hate but have to do, without talking about why we feel so.
The author is aware of how much nonsense and unattainable expectations are there, but still extends the worries and insecurities to the reader.
itselv
is 17% done
"Meanwhile, we all began to cook in a wildly neurotic and competitive way. We were looking for applause, we were constantly performing, we were desperate to be all things to all people. Was this the grand climax of the post-World War Il domestic counterrevolution or the beginning of a pathological strain of feminist overreaching? No one knew. We were too busy slicing and dicing."
— Jul 08, 2026 07:03AM
itselv
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"His recipes were precise, and I followed them to the letter; I was young, and I believed that if you changed even a hair on a recipe's head, it wouldn't turn out right."
— Jul 08, 2026 07:02AM