
It's not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words "my husband."
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Two small dogs, both unleashed, rushed toward me, snarling, and one of them bit me on my left leg, just below the knee. It all happened within a second.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Getting Hugh home after his hip replacement involved a thick cushion and a car with legroom. "Ow!" he said whenever I tried to help. "You're making everything worse!"
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]One thing that puzzled me during the American health-care debate was all the talk about socialized medicine and how ineffective it’s supposed to be. The Canadian plan was likened to ge…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]I always told myself that when I hit fifty I was going to discover opera, not just casually but full force: studying the composers, learning Italian, maybe even buying a cape. It seemed like…
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