Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, sh…

Jeannette Walls
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Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever? ✨ Jeannette Walls (2009). The Glass Castle: A Memoir, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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