“When a novel has 200, 000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200, 000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.”
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My mom was paranoid about my safety.
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2, 000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
