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  1. Sigrid Nunez _ Sempre Susan: A Memoir of

    It's always good to start off anything by breaking a rule.
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  2. Sigrid Nunez _ Sempre Susan: A Memoir of

    Once, when we were walking together on a campus outside the city, a chipmunk zipped across our path and dove into a hole at the base of an oak tree. "Oh, look at that," she said. "Just like Walt Disney.
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  3. Sigrid Nunez _ Sempre Susan: A Memoir of

    {Socrates to Phaedrus: "I'm a lover of learning, and trees and open country won't teach me anything."}
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  4. Sigrid Nunez _ Sempre Susan: A Memoir of

    Another memory. She walks into the kitchen, sits down at the kitchen counter with me, and says, "I just got a very interesting phone call. It was some guy who said he was doing a survey for the Maidenform company, and would I take a minute to answer a couple of questions. So I said sure. And then he started asking things like, was I wearing a bra right now, what kind of bra was it, and what size was it-" "You mean an obscene phone call." She looks puzzled, then sheepish. "That would explain it.
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    {Brodsky} loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.
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