She seemed so alive, with her shining eyes and her copper hair and her jokes and funny stories, but there was always a mystery at the center of her life, the sound of wild sobbing my mother said she heard coming through the floor.

As one Junkanooer designer astutely pointed out, tourists do not factor in the preparation for or even assume a noticeable presence at the celebrations.

...she dropped the flowers which Evelyn had given her. Before she even perceived her loss, the King had picked them up, and was about to give them to her, when he perceived the note, and also observed that the seal was yet unbroken. Mademoiselle has not had time to read a letter so surrounded by sweets—pray use no ceremony.

The two most popular pizza parlors (after we stopped calling it “LaBeetz” or “hot pie” and began calling it pizza) were One-O-Five and the Half Moon.