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"Lunch had become a slightly unfashionable meal at the Biedermeier."
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Mansfield Park, Part II
MARIA CRAWFORD: You’re telling me I can’t play my own harp because your horse has to bring lunch to your cow
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Just Had A Baby, Back Next Week
Lily and Grace and I just had a baby yesterday! His name is Rocco and he is terrific. By far the smallest guy I’ve ever met. If you’ve got any baby…
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I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town
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Finally Taking My Own Advice About Thanksgiving
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Thoughts on a Phone Call
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"As A Trans Man, Thanks For Being So Welcoming Of Trans Men; Weird That There's No Trans Women Here"
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How I Believe Various Characters From HBO's "The Sopranos" Would React If I Tried To Teach Them The Rules Of Warhammer
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Mansfield Park
Speak up; your disgraceful situation is nothing to be ashamed of
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How To Tell If You're In A Late Eighteenth-Century Novel
You are reconceptualizing the relationship of the individual to the collective through a series of letters to your dear friend Clare, who lives simply…
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I Will Help You Forget Piano
Affordable forgetting-piano sessions for everyone
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Shogun, Episode Two
Previously in Shogun coverage: Episode One. BLACKTHORNE [dangling from a pole]: what they don’t realize is that this puts me in an incredible bargaining…
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Why Won't My Dogs Walk Down The Stairs Today?
For the first year of their existence, both dogs refused to walk down stairs, preferring instead to be carried. As we live on the fourth-floor of a…
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Sense and Sensibility, Part III
Parts One and Two here: “Do you ever look at somebody and think to yourself: I just know that man’s going to buy me a horse.” SIR JOHN: Willoughby a…
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Middlemarch: The Video Game
"Is that more new furniture, Lydgate? But you already have so much!"
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