When my friend Josie Abrams messaged me on Facebook, she made an unusual request. “My daughter wants to be like you.”
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How could a child I’ve never met want to be like me???
Josie and I graduated from Leadership Charleston in 1999. I didn’t see her much in the years between then and now. When I saw her on Facebook, I friended her, because she was one of those people.
You know those people.
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I’m ending March in the back seat of a car. Dad’s Mercury Grand Marquis. He SAYS everybody wants it. He THINKS it’s hawt. And sexy. The envy of all people. Everywhere. And I just think about how many times he’s farted into the leather seats. And cracked the window. And blamedContinue Reading
Dina Honour is an expat. A native of New York City, she lives in Copenhagen, my Favorite City on Earth, with her her diplomat husband and two rowdy boys.
We have almost nothing in common.
And yet.
I know we’d be great friends if we lived near one another. I love Dina’s writing, her honest, unglammed take on life. Even her refreshing assessment of my Favorite City on Earth.
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