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"Having had a few angry exchanges with Fran recently, I began to think about this phenomenon."

"It has been several years (5, 10, more?) that Alex seems to question almost every suggestion made with regard to ROL."

"I have always struggled with the question of loyalty to a storekeeper or service provider, as opposed to shopping around for the best price."

"(I tend to begin most of these pieces with 'When.' When I was… When in the course… So here we go again.)"
(Fragment)

"Perhaps a more appropriate title would be Money and Trouble; subtitled My Attitude About Money Has Been the Cause of Most of My Troubles with My Wives."
(Fragment, see also: "Money" [2012])

"Fran keeps telling me to 'talk to my children about money.'"
(See also: "Money and Misunderstanding" [2012])

"As I begin to write still another piece that will eventually make up 'My Story,' a disturbing thought occurred to me: I began my life and I am ending my life in the company of two women who are surprisingly similar in many ways."

"I don’t know when I first heard that piece of advice, but I grabbed onto it as if it were the Word of God, and I passed it on to my children."

Alternate (revised?) version of "Everything in Moderation" (2013-04-30)

"I am sitting at my desk and looking at my display of greeting cards." (Later, revised draft of "Greeting Cards" [2011/2012])