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The Sentence That Hooked Me on Words
Everything I know about language goes back to the first line in the first book I loved. One great sentence can launch a whole story.
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Queen of Hats
My mother wore the hats in the family. She liked them big and bold. Now that she's gone, I wear hats in her memory.
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Everything She Wanted
I thought my cuter, perkier kid sister had all the breaks. Then she set her heart on the impossible.
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Never Too Late for Love
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Love, Sex and the Cleaning Woman
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Everything She Wanted
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How to Keep a Friend
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How Do You Know You're in Love?
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Queen of Hats
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Never Too Late for Love
She was old. He was older--and just the right height for kissing.
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Learning to Flirt
You're never too old to explore your fun-loving side.
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Make Me, I'm Yours
The urge to create is like new love--until your work starts to perplex you. Rembrandt understood. Here's what he taught me.
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How Do You Know You're in Love?
There are moments in the life of a couple when one determined soul must do the hoping and believing for two.
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Don't Mess with This Old Dame
What I did for the sake of a chicken sandwich at America's least known great art museum.
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My First Love Letter
I thought we were only tongue-tied kids on a date. But we were unwitting actors in a struggle that defined our time.
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The Friends of Your Life Are a Garden
You plant, you stake, you water--acts of love for a creation that won't stay this way forever.
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Married to Amazement
My phone keeps luring me back to the banal, but I'm courting transcendence one hot date at a time.
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My Kingdom for a Tooth
My teeth are like the rest of me--old. Sixty-five-year-old fillings are crumbling like Victorian chimneys. It adds up.
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