A Field Guide To Awkward Silences - Plot & Excerpts
Otherwise you wind up as a fairy princess who is also a vet, whose entire portfolio is invested in Lisa Frank stickers. For the most part, I have broken out from under the iron yoke of my five-year-old self. For the most part. She wanted to be surrounded by cats. I am not surrounded by cats. She thought ballet was a good investment of time and energy. I have gotten clear of that. She wanted to be a writer. That one I’m stuck with. But the toughest pronouncement of hers took me years to wiggle out of. All of elementary school, in fact. “Chocolate makes me grumpy.” I remember when this resolution formed. It was well after my bedtime one evening. I had just eaten some M&M’s, and I was in a foul humor. Perhaps, I pondered, this was not correlation, but causation. “Chocolate,” I announced, “makes me grumpy.” And something clicked.
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