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The Cottage, 2001.06.19

Yvonne managed to depress me with the news that two of my cousins – two daughters of my mom's cousin Neil, both of whom are younger than me – were married last year. (One of them to an NHL player whose name I certainly recognized). In any event, out of the entire generation on my mom's side, I'm one of only two who hasn't married, and I'm the older (by a year). Actually, I'm the third eldest out of that group of eight.

I have done precisely zero work on the novel since I arrived. At least I seem to be over the cold.

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery