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“I'd never said no to him, not once. We went where he wanted when he wanted, ate what he wanted, touched or didn't touch as much as he wanted. And honestly, I think I said it just to fuck with him: "Oh, I'm not having an abortion." He turned green almost instantaneously; it was extremely gratifying. "What are you, Catholic?" he asked in a much nastier voice than he usually spoke to me in. "No, but it's my choice," I said.”

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“I visualized these dishes, imagined their flavors, and then taught myself how to make an "airline" cut, using my boning knife to bone out the breasts but keep a drumette attached. I brined the pieces overnight in a water bath of sugar, salt, and bay leaf before roasting them off in the oven lathered with butter and surrounded by clusters of sweet grapes. I taught myself to shuck oysters, and broke into dozens of them each week to get good practice before plating them on a bed of cold seaweed and beach rocks that I harvested from the bay. I dressed them with a tiny spoonful of finely diced shallots with vinegar and black pepper, and some chopped cucumber and fresh dill.”

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“I don't know what a historian would say, but I would say Jesus: love thy neighbor, and it's easier for a camel to fit through a needle's eye than a rich man to get into heaven. In a place like Rome, insisting everyone had intrinsic value -- it rattled them. I mean, they killed him for it. I was not expecting an answer like that from my dad, who was, as far as I knew, violently atheist.”

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