Exit Ghost
“In my era, it went without saying that you would have had a child by twenty-four or twenty-five—or twenty-two. But now ... tell me ... I don't know anything you know. I haven't been around.
SHE Well, besides the obvious of having met someone I fell in love with, and who fell crazily in love with me, and someone who ... anyway, besides all that obvious stuff, if anything for exactly the opposite reason—because nobody would do such a thing in my era. If everyone did it when you were my age, I was... the only person I knew from my college class, the only person among my friends who moved to New York after Harvard who (laughing)—who got married when she was twenty-five. It seemed kind of a wild adventure we'd go on together.
HE (Not quite believing her) Is this true?
SHE It is true. (Laughing again) "Why would I lie about it?
HE What did your friends make of it when you did it?
SHE People were ... no one was shocked. People were happy. But I was the first to do it.MoreLess
SHE Well, besides the obvious of having met someone I fell in love with, and who fell crazily in love with me, and someone who ... anyway, besides all that obvious stuff, if anything for exactly the opposite reason—because nobody would do such a thing in my era. If everyone did it when you were my age, I was... the only person I knew from my college class, the only person among my friends who moved to New York after Harvard who (laughing)—who got married when she was twenty-five. It seemed kind of a wild adventure we'd go on together.
HE (Not quite believing her) Is this true?
SHE It is true. (Laughing again) "Why would I lie about it?
HE What did your friends make of it when you did it?
SHE People were ... no one was shocked. People were happy. But I was the first to do it.MoreLess
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