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Emma Stephenson's avatar

Love! Running to find a copy of Us Fools as I type this. (And the $4.99 price tag on a Cookout tray is gonna haunt me for the rest of however long I decide to live in NYC!)

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Stuart Pennebaker's avatar

it could feed neighborhoods...

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Cleo Harrington's avatar

"I still don’t completely know what it meant, but I miss it. It feels like it’s continuing on, somewhere separate from me. The point of the story is the story. Soup as a unit of time. Sisterhood as a country, a sometimes violent one. Trash as treasure." I'm in love with this ending!!

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Anna Schott's avatar

"To think about time is to think about death and this story is doing that, taking its delicious time inching toward the end, dread getting under your fingernails like Cheetos dust or glitter."

-I was in a doctor's office waiting room today thinking exactly this but without the right words and then I come home to read this, and lo!

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Stuart Pennebaker's avatar

hahah, there is definitely something about a doctor's waiting room that reallllly gets you considering the value of time, for more reasons than one! thanks for reading anna!

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