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Mary Karr _ Lit
God has a dream for me? I say. I love that idea. It sounds like a Disney movie.I know, Margaret says. Her pale round face opens up. Everybody uses the phrase or . That has a neo-Nazi ring to it.I like the Disney version.I feel you, she says, and I sit for a minute silently disbelieving she's a nun. She adjusts her heavy glasses, and her eyes once again magnify.Let's eat a cookie and pray for each other's disordered attachments, she says. Mine involves pride and cookies.Mine, I say, involves pride and good-looking men.Together we bow our heads.
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Mary Karr _ Lit
Then it hits me. I'm actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings did I worship at this altar, emptying myself of poison. And yet to pray to something above me, something invisible, had-before now-seemed degrading.
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Mary Karr _ Lit
was behind in every conceivable way. So the old attack dog started howling through my head as I'd"
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Mary Karr _ Lit
I fixed her a drink, then lowered myself on the spider's silk of my attention back into One Hundred Years of Solitude and the adventures of the Buendia family. The scene where the prodigal Jose Arcadio hoisted his adopted sister by her waist into his hammock and, in my translation, 'quartered her like a little bird' made my face hot I bent down the page, whose small triangle marks the instant. Touching that triangle of yellowed paper today is like sliding my hand into the glove of my seventeen-year-old hand. Through magic, there are the Iowa fields slipping by... And there is my mother, not yet born into the ziplock baggie of ash my sister sent me years ago with the frank message 'Mom 1/2', written in laundry pen, since no-one in our family ever stood on ceremony.
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Mary Karr _ Lit
. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied."
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Mary Karr _ Lit
{What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.}
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Mary Karr _ Lit
Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.
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Mary Karr _ Lit
Why is it that everybody else is traffic?
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Mary Karr _ Lit
But because of you, I couldn't die and couldn't monster myself, either. So you were the agent of my rescue-not a good job for somebody barely three feet tall. Blameless
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Mary Karr _ Lit
Height - ours and our boyfriends - is a running contest between Lecia and me. If I tell her good news about myself, she's liable to say 'I'm five-nine' and hang up.
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Mary Karr _ Lit
Which ensures that life gets lived in miniature. In lieu of the large feelings-sorrow, fury, joy-I had their junior counterparts-anxiety, irritation, excitement. But
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Mary Karr _ Lit
Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which
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