Tag: Roe Overturned
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Getting rid of things
F. Scott Fitzgerald, master of concluding cadences, finishes his short story “Three Hours Between Planes” (Esquire, July 1941) with this phrase embedded in his final sentence: “the second half of life is a long process of getting rid of things.” Nearly paralyzed by the prospect of sorting through and discarding the accumulated stuff of two…
Georgeann Murphy 