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Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.
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evelyn-couch
ice-cream
menopause
mid-life-crisis
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Fannie Flagg |
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d2ffd9a
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She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime. ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt . . .
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menopause
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Robyn Carr |
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ec729b0
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"Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county courthouse, rolled down her window, and tossed her mother's head that she had just chopped off in her kitchen at a State policeman and hollered, "Here! This is what you wanted," and drove right back down the courthouse stairs. Now that's what an early menopause will do for you if you're not careful."
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menopause
small-town-life
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Fannie Flagg |
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7186753
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"No, we're not getting married," I told my mother on the phone when she asked. "He's going to California and I'm staying here." Usually she doesn't phone. Usually she just does things like send me notes with histrionic scrawlings that read, "Well, you know, I can't use these," and along with the notes she encloses coupons for Kotex or Midol."
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menopause
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Lorrie Moore |