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I was the youngest in my family. when the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so i was sort of babysat by television.

-Paula Poundstone

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I Was The Youngest In My Family.

Paula Poundstone

I was the youngest in my family. when the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so i was sort of babysat by television.

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"why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" i asked them. "like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "hazel, eat." "but why?" i asked. "i mean seriously: how did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? you can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. but the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."

I'm the youngest, too. when you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "you're the baby, you're spoiled!" the fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. you're like, "hey, i'm going roller-skating-" "you're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"

To see the way that [my mother] held our family together after my dad passed away, and then went to college after my youngest sister went off to school on her own, and mom went and got a college degree in her 60s is just incredibly inspiring. so, i would just say my folks.

And then he drew a dial from his poke, and looking with lack-lustre eye, says very wisely, 'it is ten o'clock: thus we may see', quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more 'twill be eleven; and so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what i am more like. but i know that the high school i went to was a private school. it was prep school. it was a boarding school. so we didn't have a shop class. we didn't have saturday detention. we went to school on saturday. we did have sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. who wants that?

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. could she sing? (was it nice to hear when she did?) was she pretty? was she a good friend? could she have been a loving mother? a faithful wife? have i got a sister and does she favor me? if my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

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