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1. Julia Child, you taught me how to hard-boil eggs and make souffl\u00e9s! You give me hope. When I was about eight, I used to do an imitation of you misting water into the oven for your baguettes, crying \u201cWater! Water! Water!\u201d On Friday I read in the newspaper that you and your husband Paul sent out Valentine\u2019s Day cards one year with a picture of the two of you in your bathtub in Paris<\/strong>. That makes me so happy.<\/p>\n

2. There is no way I could be a poet anymore, even if I wanted to regress to 17 and try it again. I am too verbose, and happily so.<\/p>\n

3. Flirting is a skill I\u2019m not sure I ever had.<\/p>\n

4. I have a TV now, thanks to \u00fcber-generous neighbors Paul and Jennifer. I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m never going to leave the house again, or at least not until the Olympics are over. I love the Olympics. The suspense, the joy, the agony, the swimmers\u2019 Herculean bodies. But I\u2019m also afraid that my television may make me stupid<\/strong>, and if I don\u2019t have my brain, what will become of me? I\u2019ll laze around all day in trashy tube tops, listening to Skid Row\u2019s \u201cYouth Gone Wild\u201d and lying on the floor. I\u2019ll spend all my money buying French pepper mills and Tawny Kitaen memorabilia on e-Bay and have nothing left for food. I\u2019ll stop believing in liberal politics.<\/p>\n

5. I\u2019d like to make dinner for Cal from Jeffrey Eugenides\u2019 Middlesex<\/a><\/em>. What a story he tells.<\/p>\n

6. I think we should each have a special theme song that plays whenever we enter a room, any room, anywhere. All rooms should also be equipped with fans to blow our hair back enticingly on days when we are wearing our hair down. Just imagine it. I\u2019m not sure how the logistics of this would work, but I think about it often and contemplate which song I\u2019d choose.<\/p>\n

7. Oh Paris, I miss you.<\/strong>
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