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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. and so i sent a cable to my father saying, 'by the time you get this, daddy, i'll already be mrs. blaise!'

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I Had A 2-week Courtship With A

Bharati Mukherjee

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. and so i sent a cable to my father saying, 'by the time you get this, daddy, i'll already be mrs. blaise!'

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I just don't need cable news. there's nothing that happens on cable news that i don't already know. i'm talking about just the acquisition of information, learning things. what is on cable tv is not that. cable news isn't news. what is happening on cable news right now is a political assassination of not just donald trump, but of ideas and cultural mores that i believe in.

It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. you really have to do that as well.

Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? what happened with coffee? did i miss a meeting? they have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. they have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.

The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. if it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

Daddy pays for the water, daddy pays for the gas, daddy pays for the electricity, and if daddy didn't pay for the electricity, he'd pay for the candle on your nightstand, so you can study for the big test tomorrow.

By the way, i've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'daddy.' everytime daddy would otherwise say 'i' or 'me,' daddy is now going to say 'daddy.

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