Joyce Johnson
:: Minor Characters
When you were hung up on someone, you said his name a lot - it was like a little reference point that was always there. No matter what the conversation was, the name would always crop up in it.
Perhaps the best way to have a love affair is to be the one leaving, not the one left.
I ran out and got the New York World-Telegram. It was a very small item - WOMAN 28 FOUND DEAD.
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For a long time I stared at the word WOMAN. Had we both grown up, then, become women?