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In 1936, when Jayne was three years old, Herbert William died of a heart attack while driving a car with his wife and daughter

Amanda was a gallant lady with a terrific sense of humor and the bawdiest laugh I ever heard

Newborns and infants are particularly sensitive because their lungs are still developing, and they breathe more rapidly than adults, meaning they inhale more air (and more particulates) relative to their body size

Drug paraphernalia charges look small until you start running into the long-term consequences

O screw it, cookiehand me my guitar and Ill sing you a fada in the most perfect Portuguese. Those final weeks, spanning the end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words

I would also buy a much bigger drink, but make it last the whole evening