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And So, Thanksgiving. Its The Most Amazing Holiday. Just Think About It — It's A Miracle That Once A Year So Many Millions Of Americans Sit Down To Exactly The Same Meal As One Another, Exactly The Same Meal They Grew Up Eating, And Exactly The Same Meal They Ate A Year Earlier. The Turkey. The Sweet Potatoes. The Stuffing. The Pumpkin Pie. Is There Anything Else We All Can Agree So Vehemently About? I Don't Think So.

New Orleans Is One Of The Two Most Ingrown, Self-obsessed Little Cities In The United States. (the Other Is San Francisco.)

I Don't Want To Be Someone That You're Settling For. I Don't Want To Be Someone That Anyone Settles For. Marriage Is Hard Enough Without Bringing Such Low Expectations Into It, Isn't It?

Parenting Meant That Whether Or Not Your Children Understood You, Your Obligation Was To Understand Them.

The One Thing I Would Like To Get Across About My Whole Feeling Regarding High School Is How I Was When I Was Fifteen. Gawky. Always A Hem Hanging Down, Or Strap Loose, Or A Pimple On My Chin. I Never Knew What To Do With My Hair. I Was A Mess. And I Still Carry That Fifteen-year-old Girl Around Now. A Piece Of Me Still Believes I'm The Girl Nobody Dances With.